Bulletin n. 2/2015
September 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
    • Jessica N. Terman
    Performance Goal Achievement in Fiscal Federalism: The Influence of State Partisan Environments and Regulatory Regimes
    in Policy Studies Journal , Volume 43, Issue 3 ,  2015
    With tight budgets and hyper-partisan interactions within and between the states and federal government, attention is being paid to the implementation of federal programs. This is particularly important because, as the recently implemented American Recovery and Reinvestment Act suggests, state administrators are often the implementers of federal policy. This study integrates the fiscal federalism literature with that on implementation and bureaucratic response to examine the effect that within-state factors have on the degree of performance goal achievement in federally funded, state implemented programs. The findings suggest that, when implementing federal programs, state administrators face conflicting political incentive structures and policy-specific capacity and capability deficits that influence their motivation and ability to achieve performance goals.
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