Mandate Madness
How Congress Forces States and Localities to Do its Bidding and Pay for the Privilege
What do drivers' licenses that function as national ID cards, nationwide standardized tests for third graders, the late unlamented 55 mile per hour speed limit, the outlawing of the eighteen-year-old beer drinker, and the disappearing mechanical lever voting machine have in common? Each is the product of an unfunded federal mandate: a concept that politicians of both parties profess to oppose in theory but which in practice they often find irresistible as a means of forcing state and local governments to do their bidding, while paying for the privilege.Mandate Madness explores the history, debate, and political gamesmanship surrounding unfund…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-351-50712-7
- EAN: 9781351507127
- Produktnummer: 24023451
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 302 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'778 KB
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