The Incidence of Executive Vetoes in Comparative Perspective: The Case of American State Governments, 1979-1999

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Magar
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
State Governments ◽  
American State

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Max M. Edling
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
State System ◽  
State Governments ◽  
American Founding ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Constitution ◽  
American State

In recent years a new Unionist interpretation of the American founding has presented the US Constitution as a compact of union between sovereign states, which allowed them to maintain interstate peace and to act in unison as a single nation vis-à-vis other nations in the international state-system. Such an understanding of the American founding argues that the Constitution created a bisected American state divided into a federal government in charge of international and intraunion affairs and state governments in charge of promoting socioeconomic development and maintaining civic rights. The introduction provides an overview of different interpretations of the founding and of the structure of the book.

Weak State, Strong State, Deep State

2021 ◽  
pp. 13-23
Author(s):  
Stephen Skowronek ◽  
John A. Dearborn ◽  
Desmond King
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Weak State ◽  
Strong State ◽  
Deep State ◽  
National Power ◽  
Scholarly Discussion ◽  
First Time ◽  
American State

The most pressing reason to revive scholarly discussion of the state in America is that, for the first time, everyone else is talking about it quite candidly. Trump’s assault on the “Deep State” has pulled that old chestnut front and center. But as many researchers have shown, the American state defies easy characterization. Some describe it as a “weak state” because of the constitutional fragmentation of authority, the divisions of national power among three branches and between the national and state governments vertically. Others describe it as a “strong state” for its proven capacities to release social energies and deploy resources under pressure. The weak/strong debate has turned on the most exceptional features of the American state. This chapter reconfigures that debate around attributes of depth, and it brings to the fore issues that the modern American state shares with all others.

Legislation

2021 ◽  
pp. 105-133
Author(s):  
Max M. Edling
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Member States ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Native American Diplomacy ◽  
Domestic Affairs ◽  
American Union ◽  
American State

The first federal Congresses implemented the US Constitution by turning the constitutional text into the policies and institutions of the federal government. Under the Washington administration (1789–1797) federal legislation was overwhelmingly concerned with foreign affairs, international commerce, the federal territories in the trans-Appalachian West, Native American diplomacy and trade, and relations between the member-states in the American union. Other than the post office, hardly any laws were adopted to regulate social and economic relations within the member-states of the American federal union. Congress’s record in the period stands in marked contrast with that of both American state legislatures, such as Pennsylvania, and legislatures of unitary states, such as Great Britain, which were much more concerned with domestic issue legislation. In the bisected American state, there was a distribution of authority between a federal government in charge of international and intraunion affairs and state governments in charge of domestic affairs.

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