Intergovernmental Relations in Transition

1. Intergovernmental Relations in Transition [David K. Hamilton and Carl W. Stenberg] Part 1. Phases of IGR Revisited 2. Intergovernmental Relations in the Early 21st Century: Lingering Images of Earlier Phases or Emergence of a New Phase? [J. Edwin Benton] 3. Why Coercion and Cooperation Coexist in American Federalism [John Kincaid] 4. Why We Fight: Conflict and "Coping" in 21st Century Intergovernmental Relations [Brendan F. Burke and Jeffrey L. Brudney] Part 2. Fiscal and Institutional Issues 5. Scarcity and the Federal System [Paul L. Posner] 6. Putting the "R" Back in IGR: The Great Recession and Intergovernmental "Relationships" [Bruce J. Perlman, Michael J. Scicchitano, and Yahong Zhang] Part 3. Intergovernmental Management Cases 7. Partisan Polarization, Administrative Capacity, and State Discretion in the Affordable Care Act [Dale Krane and Shihyun Noh] 8. The Diffusion of Federal Regulation through Contracts: The Case of Food Safety Policy [Jocelyn M. Johnston and Rebecca Yurman] 9. Clean Energy and Growth through State and Local Implementation [Benjamin H. Deitchman] 10. Bottom-up Federalism: An Examination of U.S. Local Governmentsâ Climate Change Policy and Practice [Benoy Jacob, Brian Gerber, and Sam Gallaher] Part 4. Laboratories of Democracy at Work 11. The Legislative Transformation of Stateâ"Local Relations [Ann OâM. Bowman and Richard C. Kearney] 12. Pulling the Lever: The Statesâ Role in Catalyzing Local Change [Ricardo S. Morse and Carl W. Stenberg] 13. Professional Development Applied Projects: Street-Level Laboratories of Democracy [Susan C. Paddock] Part 5. Reflections from the Trenches 14. The Unraveling of the Intergovernmental System: A Practitionerâs Observations [Donald J. Borut] 15. American Federalism Without a System of Intergovernmental Relations [Parris N. Glendening] 16. Back to the Future? The Road Ahead [Carl W. Stenberg and David K. Hamilton]