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Association: Name: Western Political Science Association URL: http://www.csus.edu/ORG/WPSA/
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Bocanegra, Jose. "National-State Government Policy Cycles in American Federalism: Fluctuations in Policy Outputs" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Marriott Hotel, Portland, Oregon, Mar 11, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p88275_index.html>

Bocanegra, J. A. , 2004-03-11 "National-State Government Policy Cycles in American Federalism: Fluctuations in Policy Outputs" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Marriott Hotel, Portland, Oregon Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p88275_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Richard Nathan (1995) identifies a theory of federalism in which the national and state governments cyclically alternate in the extent of their relative policy activism. There are times when the national government engages in more policy activism than the states, and at other times, the states engage in more policy activism than the national government. This paper examines this thesis of cyclical differential policy activism between the national and state levels of government in American federalism. Utilizing education, social welfare, and highways federal budget authority and state expenditures data, from 1952 to 2000, this work finds no synchronized cyclical policy alternation between the national and state governments. What is perhaps occurring, instead, is intergovernmental policy converge between the national and state governments, driven primarily by mass and elite political ideology.

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