State Vehicle Electrification Mandates and Federal Preemption

Impact of Federal and State Mandates on Local Governments

"Fend-for-yourself federalism" as opposed to "new federalism" is the term now used to more precisely describe the federal government's policies that are presently impacting small local governments. It isn't that rural communities are being ignored; on the contrary, they are recognized as a vital link in carrying out national policy. A third of the nation's population lives in communities with 2...

Federal preemption of state regulation over air ambulances.

Federal Mandates in the Health Care Context

An Equilibrium Model of Federal Mandates∗

This paper proposes a framework for studying policy making in a federal system in the presence of spillover externalities. Local jurisdictions choose policies by majority rule subject to constraints that are set by majority rule, but at the federation level. We characterize the induced preferences of voters for federal policies, prove existence of local majority rule equilibrium, provide an exa...

Assessing the impact of federal and state preemption in public health: a framework for decision makers.

In the United States, state and local public health policies play a fundamental role in innovation and progress. Preemption, by which Congress or the state legislatures limit the authority of lower jurisdictions, can eliminate the benefits of state and local policy initiatives. Preemption can also have a negative impact on enforcement, civic engagement, and grassroots movement building.In June ...