Types of Federalism Chronology of U S Federalism

Types of Federalism

Chronology of U. S. Federalism • • • 1760 -1860 Founding to Civil War 1880 -1920 s Post-Bellum Expansion and Progressive Era 1930 s- 1960 New Deal and World War II, Postwar Prosperity 1960 s-1970 s Great Society and Viet Nam War 1970 s-1999 New Federalisms

Dual Federalism

1789 -1932 Dual Federalism • Courts typically found in favor of the states in disputed law • Some exceptions: ie. Mc. Cullough • Progressives enacted minimum wage laws for women workers, • instituted industrial accident insurance • restricted child labor • improved factory regulation. • Expanded schools • FDA regulations of drugs and meat • Railroads and Anti-trust laws What changed in 1932?

Cooperative Federalism 1932 -1963 • Franklin Roosevelt/New Deal • Grants-in Aid/ Intergovernmental Transfers • Examples: Forest Fire Prevention, Vocational Education, Maternal health etc. • Very specific • After 1960’s broad use of funds such as revenue sharing and block grants

Dual versus Cooperative

Centralized Federalism 1960 -1970 National Government forced states to implement policy by intergovernmental transfers (Grants-in-aid) Medicare/Medicaid Birth Control Federal Aid to Schools Consumer Safety- Auto/Highway Acts War on Poverty- Food Stamps/ Job Corps

DEVOLUTION- NEW FEDERALISM 1970 -1990 s Nixon and Regan- wanted to return power to the states… give them back policy control Less social programs, Less Central Control, Less Spending But as always…. We argue about What programs, What spending, and What policies to dissolve.

CURRENT- CONFLICTED FEDERALISM • • • All of the above. How do we have dual? How do we have coordinating? How do we have centralized? How do we devolve?