The preservation of federal priorities connecticut and the cdbg small cities program
This article examines the impact of state assumption of federal grant programs on the state of Connecticut. The administrative process created by Connecticut to implement the Small Cities CDBG program is examined and followed by a comparison of programmatic activities before and after state assumption. Unlike many other states, Connecticut adopted priorities similar to those of the federal government. Connecticut's preservation of federal priorties is most likely due to the choice of state implementing agency and a unique policy bias at the state level.
The New Federalism: Promises, Programs, and Performance
As the decade of the 1970s came to an end, basic principles of American intergovernmental relations (IGR) seemed well established and future directions seemed reasonably predictable. Observers generally agreed that the expanding role of the federal government in the IGR framework, so evident in prior decades, would continue without serious challenge. One of the authors of this essay, along with Carl Stenberg and Carol Weissert of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, conducted in 1980 a poll of scholars of American government asking them to identify the major IGR trends of that time.' Among the most significant trends identified by these scholars were: 1. The increased flow of federal dollars to state and local governments. 2. The growing dependence of local governments, particularly cities, on federal aid. 3. The increased federal regulation of the use of shared revenues. 4. The broadening of federal aid so as to reach almost all local governments. In the second edition of their book, The New Federalism, published in 1981-just as Ronald Reagan was assuming office-Michael Reagan and John Sanzone felt secure enough to project four "safe" and "predictable" trends for the future of IGR. These were: 1. First, it seems safe to say that the states and localities will become even more dependent upon federal financial assistance in the next few years. 2. The domestic role of the national government will increase ... in the assumption by the national government of services previously handled on a shared basis. We refer here . . to the very predictable extension of a portion of medical financing [by the federal government] to the entire population. 3. A third prediction-one we think is a very safe bet-is that the predominant mode of federal financial assistance will continue to be that of categorical grants. 4. Finally, we expect a continued development of the notion of a national
Recovering the frontier state : war, ethnicity, and state in Afghanistan
Chapter 1 Table of Contents Chapter 2 1 Introduction Chapter 3 2 Ethnicity, Political Power, and Fragmentation Chapter 4 3 Rise of the Taliban and Civil War Chapter 5 4 The United States and War on Terrorism Chapter 6 5 Restructuring the Afghan State Chapter 7 6 Political Economy of Drugs and Warlordism Chapter 8 7 Afghanistan and Neighboring States Chapter 9 8 Conclusion Chapter 10 Bibliography