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Introduction to the Symposium on Intergovernmental Management and ACIR Beyond 50: Implications for Institutional Development and Research
Author(s) -
Kincaid John,
Stenberg Carl W.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
public administration review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.721
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1540-6210
pISSN - 0033-3352
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2011.02324.x
Subject(s) - chapel , citation , library science , political science , sociology , public administration , law , theology , computer science , philosophy
Since the inauguration of President Barack Obama in 2009, federal involvement in state and local aff airs has been bold and wide ranging. Th rough the massive $787.2 billion American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009 in particular, the president and Congress sought to counteract state and local tax increases and spending cuts that could retard economic recovery. However, the administration’s economic stimulus, health care, immigration, energy conservation, transportation, infrastructure, housing, and fi nancial services regulation initiatives, among others, rekindled debates over big versus small government, liberalism versus conservatism, and centralization versus decentralization. Th ese initiatives also sparked signifi cant backlashes, including, for example, the rise of the Tea Party advocating limited government, lawsuits fi led by 21 state attorneys general challenging the constitutionality of provisions of the Patient Protection and Aff ordable Care Act of 2010, and substantial losses for Democrats in the 2010 congressional and state elections.