Administrative Federalism

The State Children’s Health Insurance Program: an Administrative Experiment in Federalism

The authors describe Title XXI of the Social Security Act as a funding scheme for children’s health insurance that represents an “experiment in federalism,” a new cooperative model under which state and federal governments interact on an equal basis. Under this scheme, the federal government provides funding and the states remain free to establish administrative details. The authors compare the...

Cost-benefit federalism: reconciling collective action federalism and libertarian federalism in the Obamacare litigation and beyond.

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL Administrative Personnel

Governor of Arizona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Janet Napolitano Superintendent of Public Instruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tom Horne Student Regent (voting), appointed to June 2004 ....

Justice Brennan and Federalism

Fail-Safe Federalism

We explore the consequences for social welfare and the national political conflict of several key institutional features of federalism in the United States: supermajoritarian national institutions and permeable boundaries in the provision of by national and state governments, where the actions by the former can crowd out the latter. States with high demand for public good provision are better p...