Safeguarding federalism
Subtitle: how states protect their interests in national policymaking
By: John D. Nugent.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780806140032
Subjects: Federal government -- United States -- History; State governments -- United States -- History; United States -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the constitution and the "construction" of American federalism; title: What's at stake? : state-governmental interests vis-à-vis the federal government; title: The political safeguards of federalism; title: Preempting federal preemption : the uniform-state-laws process; title: State participation in federal policymaking : the intergovernmental lobby; title: State implementation of federal policy as a safeguard of federalism; title: Summing up the political safeguards of federalism.