Central State Expansion and Subnational Capacity: The Struggle to Make Federalism Work

• In Event: A Potpourri of Public Administration

Brief Overview

Drawing on a novel dataset from 1997-2015, we assess the implications of federal policy expansion on subnational administrative, technical, and nongovernmental capacity in the domain of American public education.

Authors

• Susan Moffitt, Brown University

• Cadence Elizabeth Willse, Stanford University

• Kelly Branham Smith, Stetson University

• David K Cohen, University of Michigan