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Association: Name: WESTERN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION URL: http://www.csus.edu/ORG/WPSA/
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Henderson, Gordon. "Acting Locally, Thinking Globally: State and Local Governments, National Policy Issues, and Engaged Citizenship" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the WESTERN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION, Manchester Hyatt, San Diego, California, Mar 20, 2008 <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p238441_index.html>

Henderson, G. P. , 2008-03-20 "Acting Locally, Thinking Globally: State and Local Governments, National Policy Issues, and Engaged Citizenship" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the WESTERN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION, Manchester Hyatt, San Diego, California Online <PDF>. 2009-05-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p238441_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Title: Acting Locally, Thinking Globally: State and Local Governments, National Policy Issues, and Engaged Citizenship Author: Gordon P. Henderson, Ph.D. Affiliation: Widener University Recent intergovernmental theory has suggested an ironic reversal of E.E. Schattschneider�s concept of the scope of conflict. State and local governments have increasingly taken formal positions on issues of national concern. Under the influence of entrenched policy monopolies, national and to some extent state governments have increasingly, through both action and inaction, promoted the local status quo, contrary to Schattschneider�s original thesis. From the local perspective, then, contraction, not expansion of conflict is advisable. This paper examines three policy areas where this reversal of intergovernmental logic appears to be manifest: environmental, immigration and foreign policy. The data consists of qualitative accounts of state and local government actions in these policy areas. The paper explores the idea that U.S. citizenship might be more effectively exercised at the state and local rather than at the national levels. This last is tied to the literature on foreign policy decision making and the Democratic Peace.

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