Bulletin n. 1/2015
June 2015
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
  • ­Arnold Gwen
    When Cooperative Federalism Isn’t: How U.S. Federal Interagency Contradictions Impede Effective Wetland Management
    in Publius: The Journal of Federalism , vol. 45, n. 2, Spring ,  2015 ,  244-269
    One goal of cooperative federalism is for the federal government to help states adopt policies that are widely considered socially beneficial but which states might not adopt independently. Sometimes, however, federal interventions actually can prevent states from adopting sound policy innovations. U.S. states struggle to adopt rapid wetland assessment tools because of contradictory pressures exerted on states by two federal agencies locked in protracted conflict. This tension creates opportunities for states to influence federal policy and leads each federal agency to try to use states as instruments for imposing its priorities on the other. When analyzing the conditions under which cooperative federalism does not achieve its intended purposes, scholars should attend to horizontal intergovernmental complexity and the realities of policy implementation.
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