POLSCI 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Marble Cake, School Zone, William Rehnquist
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Externality- people who experience the effects of an issue are outside of the problem. Disease control: federalism is a balancing act between controlling states and allowing diversity while also solving collective dilemmas. Tiebout hypothesis: federalism is good when it allows government to be diverse in spending. People sort into communities they want to live in: people (cid:373)o(cid:448)e to (cid:862)(cid:271)etter(cid:863) governed locations, people sort into communities that they want to live in. Peterson hypothesis: rich people will seek out low tax areas, poor people seek out areas with many public services (higher tax areas) Subunit governments get full sovereignty and national government cannot compel them to act. Confederate states believed that each state was sovereign. Constructional problems with confederation: balance centralization and decentralization, national government has decently increased in power over the years (much more powerful than the states) States and national government are both sovereign in their own right and operate independency like a layered cake.
