Open AccessNew Federalism: 2nd Edition
Author(s) -
R. Lawson Veasey,
Wesley Moody
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
american review of politics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2374-779X
pISSN - 2374-7781
DOI - 10.15763/issn.2374-7781.1983.4.0.22-39
Subject(s) - decentralization , federalism , public administration , state (computer science) , block grant , work (physics) , political science , government (linguistics) , administration (probate law) , federal budget , reagan administration , inflation (cosmology) , new federalism , national government , fiscal federalism , tax policy , state government , economics , public economics , local government , tax reform , law , fiscal year , politics , algorithm , linguistics , theoretical physics , computer science , engineering , philosophy , welfare , mechanical engineering , physics
When the Reagan Administration took office in 1981, it concentrated its domestic efforts upon national government spending, deficits, and inflation. Its major proposed remedies have consisted of "supply-side" economics, cuts in the rates of federal spending on non-military programs and a return to greater state/local responsibility for public policy initiatives and financing. It is with this last aspect of the Reagan proposals that the present work is concerned: the impact and policy implications of federal decentralization on Arkansas. The option of a state tax increase is explored as Arkansas' response.