This book introduces students to the complex landscape of state-local intergovernmental relations today. Each chapter illustrates conflict and cooperation for policy problems including the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, environmental regulation, marijuana regulation, and government management capacity. The contributors, leading experts in the field, help students enhance their understanding of the importance of state-local relations in the U.S. federal system, argue for better analysis of the consequences of state-local relations for the quality of policy outcomes, and introduce them to public service career opportunities in state and local government.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Chapter 1: Why do state-local relations need our attention?
Eric S. Zeemering, University of Georgia
Career Profile: Cliff Lippard, Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
SECTION I: STATE POWER
Chapter 2: Which Government Do You Trust the Most: Federal, State, Local, or None?
John Kincaid, Lafayette College
Career Profile: Simonia Brown, New York City, Mayor’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs
Chapter 3: Local Government Power: The States Give and the States Take Away
William Blomquist, IUPUI
Career Profile: Laura Meadows, Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia
Chapter 4: The State Legislative Politics of Preemption
Jaclyn Bunch, University of South Alabama
Career Profile: Emanuel “Chris” Welch, Ancel Glink
Chapter 5: The Scope of State Preemption and the Ghost of Judge Dillon
David Swindell, Arizona State University,
Carl Stenberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
James Svara, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Career Profile: John Olszewski, Jr., Baltimore County, Maryland
Chapter 6: Diffusion Quarantine: The Use of State Preemption to Prevent the Spread of Innovations
Daniel J. Mallinson, Penn State Harrisburg
Career Profile: Scott Jensen, Department of Labor and Training, State of Rhode Island
Chapter 7: How Much Can Local Governments Do? Evidence from Variation across the States
Agustin Leon-Moreta, University of New Mexico
Vittoria Totaro, University of New Mexico
Career Profile: Courtney Long, Iowa State University Extension
SECTION II: CONFLICT IN STATE-LOCAL RELATIONS
Chapter 8: When States Intervene—or Don’t: Local Fiscal Distress, Municipal Takeovers, and the Complexities of Local Control
Ashley Nickels, Kent State University
Shilpa Viswanath, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
Hannah Lebovits, Cleveland State University
Career Profile: Jamie Benning, Iowa State University Extension and Outreach
Chapter 9: State Laws and Local Sanctuaries
Russell L. Hanson, Indiana University
Erica Coe, Indiana University
Career Profile: Katharine Czarnecki, Michigan Economic Development Corporation
Chapter 10: Franchising the Regulation of Fracking
Brian K. Collins, University of North Texas
Career Profile: John Tennert, Regional Flood Control District, Clarke County, Nevada
SECTION III: COOPERATION IN STATE-LOCAL RELATIONS
Chapter 11: Does State Spending Promote Local Government Sustainability Policies?
Jayce L. Farmer, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Career Profile: James Leiman, North Dakota Department of Commerce
Chapter 12: Do States Enable Local Government Transparency?
Jie Tao, University of North Texas
Brian K. Collins, University of North Texas
Career Profile: Jennifer Groce, Northern Illinois University
Chapter 13: State Marijuana Legalization and the Local Response
Russell L. Hanson, Indiana University
Eric S. Zeemering, University of Georgia
Career Profile: Jessica Neuwirth, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Chapter 14: Not State, Not Local: Regional Intergovernmental Organizations
Jay Rickabaugh, Appalachian State University
George W. Dougherty, Jr., University of Pittsburgh
Career Profile: Grace Gallucci, Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency
Chapter 15: Balancing Local and Regional Interests
Thomas Skuzinski, Virginia Polytechnic University
Chapter 16: State–Local Relations and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Cali Curley, University of Miami
Peter Stanley Federman, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
Eric S. Zeemering, University of Georgia
Career Profile: Dr. Sandra Elizabeth Ford, DeKalb County, Georgia, Board of Health
Notes
Index
About the Author :
Russell L. Hanson is professor emeritus in the Department of Political Science at Indiana University. He is co-editor of Politics in the American States: A Comparative Analysis, 10th edition (CQ Press), editor of Governing Partners: State-Local Relations in the United States (Westview Press), and has written extensively about state politics.
Eric S. Zeemering is associate professor and MPA Director in the School of Public and International Affairs, Department of Public Administration and Policy at the University of Georgia. He is former chair of the American Society for Public Administration’s Section on Intergovernmental Administration and Management. He is the author of Collaborative Strategies for Sustainable Cities: Economy, Environment and Community in Baltimore (Routledge) and writes about local governance and intergovernmental relations.
Review :
Hanson and Zeemering gathered 16 essays that examine state-local intergovernmental relations. An opening essay presents the framework for the essays that follow. Readers learn about the challenges of state and local conflicts and how state and local governments may cooperate. The remaining 15 essays are organized into three parts. The six essays in the first part assess the trust many citizens have in local governments; review how the Dillon Rule guides state-local relations; analyze the preemption of local autonomy; look at of the effects of preemption on the work of local government; and compare local government authority across states. Part 2 includes three essays on conflict in state-local relations, and the final part (six essays) considers cooperation in state-local relations, emphasizing sustainability policies, local government transparency, changes in cannabis regulation, and conflict and cooperation during the COVID pandemic. Accompanying each essay are reflective questions and a "career profile" of a person who works in state-local relations. In recent decades, many state governments have attempted to manage the activities of local governments, and this timely collection sheds light on this power struggle. Highly recommended. Undergraduates through faculty, general readers, and especially practitioners.
The book effectively tackles state–local intergovernmental relations and management, which can be best described as multi-dimensional and unique to individual states and localities. As one of the few volumes exclusively dedicated to state–local relations, it is particularly helpful in the sense of introducing the reader to the contours of state–local relations as well as explicating why those relationships matter—for the reader and for citizens in general.
