Urban policy in a changing federal system: proceedings of a Symposium; [Symposium on Urban Policy in a Changing Federal System...in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, June 22-23, 1984]

Urban Policy in a Changing Federal System -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Summary -- WHAT IS FEDERALISM? -- THE NATIONAL IDEA VERSUS DEVOLUTION -- FISCAL CAPACITY, INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITY, AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF FEDERAL DEVOLUTION -- RESPONSES TO NEW FEDERALISM -- CONCLUSION -- 1 Trends and Developments in Federalism: The Meaning for Urban Policy -- THE EVOLUTION OF FEDERALISM -- ECONOMIC CONDITIONS -- THE PUBLIC MOOD -- THE DECLINE IN FEDERAL DOMESTIC SPENDING -- THE SHIFT TO BLOCK GRANTS -- CHANGING FUNCTIONAL ASSIGNMENTS -- PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH -- PUBLIC-PRIVATE SECTOR RESPONSES -- INTERGOVERNMENTAL COOPERATION OR CONFLICT? -- URBAN POLICY OPTIONS -- Fiscal Policies -- State-Local Functional Assignments -- Other State Actions -- State Organizational Alternatives -- Metropolitan or Substate Regional Alternatives -- Regional Programming and Interlocal Coordination -- Local Government Reform -- Metropolitan Financing -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 2 The Supreme Court and the Federal System: A Constitutional Framework for Urban Policy -- INTRODUCTION -- THE DEATH AND LIFE OF SUBSTANTIVE DUE PROCESS -- BALANCING TESTS AND DEFERENCE TO THE STATES -- EXPANSION OF THE REACH OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT -- ENFORCEMENT OF FEDERAL CIVIL RIGHTS STATUTES AGAINST THE STATES -- A LAST HURRAH FOR THE TENTH AMENDMENT -- THE SUPREME COURT AND THE FEDERAL SYSTEM -- THE SUPREME COURT AND CONGRESSIONAL FEDERALISM -- CONTEMPORARY FEDERALISM: A CONSTITUTIONAL CHINESE MENU -- Mythic Federalism -- Dual Sovereignty -- Cooperative Federalism -- Active Nationalism -- Benign Federalism -- Functional Federalism -- IMPLICATIONS FOR THE NEW FEDERALISM AND NATIONAL URBAN POLICY -- REFERENCES -- 3 Fiscal Federalism after the California Taxpayers' Revolt: A Sorting out of Sorts -- THE GREAT STATE-LOCAL SLOWDOWN.