State-local intergovernmental relations

Content for the week of April 8, 2024

Topics

• State-local intergovernmental relations
• Intergovernmetnal conflict
• Unfunded mandates
• Preemption

Readings

• Chapters 3 and 11 in Governing the Metropolitan Region: America’s New Frontier (Miller and Cox 2014)
• Goodman, Christopher B., Megan E. Hatch, and Bruce D. McDonald. “State Preemption of Local Laws: Origins and Modern Trends.” (Goodman, Hatch, and McDonald 2021)
• Hicks, William D., et al “Home Rule Be Damned: Exploring Policy Conflicts Between the Statehouse and City Hall.” (Hicks et al. 2018)
• Einstein, Katherine Levine, and David M. Glick. “Cities in American Federalism: Evidence on State-Local Government Conflict from a Survey of Mayors.” (Einstein and Glick 2017)

References

Einstein, Katherine Levine, and David M. Glick. 2017. “Cities in American Federalism: Evidence on State-Local Government Conflict from a Survey of Mayors.” Publius: The Journal of Federalism 47 (4): 599–621.

Goodman, Christopher B., Megan E. Hatch, and Bruce D. McDonald. 2021. “State Preemption of Local Laws: Origins and Modern Trends.” Perspectives on Public Management and Governance 4 (2): 146–58.

Hicks, William D., Carol Weissert, Jeffrey Swanson, Jessica Bulman-Pozen, Vladimir Kogan, Lori Riverstone-Newell, Jaclyn Bunch, et al. 2018. “Home Rule Be Damned: Exploring Policy Conflicts Between the Statehouse and City Hall.” PS: Political Science & Politics 51 (1): 26–38.

Miller, David Y., and Raymond Cox. 2014. Governing the Metropolitan Region: America’s New Frontier. New York, NY: Routledge.