Intergovernmental Relations (IGR)
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Topics
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 | Federalism |
| Intergovernmental relations (IGR) |
| Trends in federal-state relations |
| Fiscal federalism |
| Categorical vs. block grants |
| Mandates |
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Readings
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Lecture Notes
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Web Resources
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| You might want to look through the issue of Governing magazine that grades
the states in terms of their level of government performance. |
| For information on the differences in management capacity among the country's major
cities see this recent edition of Governing
magazine. |
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Other Useful Information
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| One of the the things you will discover if you read the editorial
pages is that many of the debates and arguments the authors raise are rooted in different
perspectives about federalism and conflicting ideas about what the proper relationship
between federal, state, and local governments ought to be. A few web pages you might
find of interest are: |
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| For those of you that like political cartoons, you might want to
check out these web sites: |
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