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- Title
Responses to "The Right Fight": Federalism Won't Work.
- Authors
Rubin, Edward
- Abstract
The article comments on the paper "The Right Fight," by Daniel Richman. There is one inter-organizational rivalry that many public officials and academics staunchly defend. This is the rivalry between national and state authorities, generally known as federalism. According to federalist doctrine, the states are separate sovereignties, not subordinate but equal to the national government. Federalism grants legal rights to states and declares that local governments, as creatures of states, possess no legal status of their own. A structure of this sort impedes the important relationship between the national government and local governments, subjecting these local governments to unnecessary state control. The problem is particularly serious for U.S.'s large cities, whose economies, social services, and security are of national concern but which regularly find themselves constrained by rurally oriented state governments that are hostile to their interests. Faced with these impediments to a direct relationship with city governments, the national government has tried to do things on its own.
- Subjects
UNITED States; FEDERAL government; STATE governments; STATE supervision over local government; CITIES &; towns; UNITED States politics &; government
- Publication
Boston Review, 2004, Vol 29, Issue 6, p14
- ISSN
0734-2306
- Publication type
Article