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Federalism (DEFINING FEDERALISM (OTHER TYPES OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS,…
Federalism
DEFINING FEDERALISM
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POWERS
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POWERS FOR LOCAL GOV'T
Est. local gov't, maintain schools, regulate state trade, conduct elections, provide public safety
STATES OBLIGATIONS
Full Faith and Credit: Each state must recognize docs. and judgments rendered by other states (i.e. driver's license)
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INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS TODAY Interactions among national, state and local governments.
DUAL FEDERALISM:
known as layer-cake federalism, is a political arrangement in which power is divided between the federal and state governments in clearly defined terms.
COOPERATIVE FEDERALISM: Otherwise known as the marble cake. Powers and policy are shared between states and the national government.
FISCAL FEDERALISM:
works with marble-cake federalism, deals with the division of governmental functions and financial relations among levels of government such as the pattern of spending, taxes and providing grants in the federal system.
THE GRANT-IN-AID SYSTEM:
The transfer of money the national government uses to both aid and influence states, local government or individual person for the purposes of funding a specific project or program. The federal government gets this money from income tax revenues.
BLOCK GRANTS:
a grant from a central government that a local authority can allocate to a wide range of services such as problems with grant-in-aid.
PROJECT GRANT: given by the federal government to state and local governments on the basis of merit.
FORMULA GRANT: mandatory grant given based on statistical criteria for specific types of work.
CATEGORICAL GRANTS: issued by the United States Congress, which may be spent only for narrowly defined purposes such as project and formula grants.
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