Book contents
- Responsive States
- Responsive States
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Federalism and Policy Feedback
- 2 The Surprising Persistence of Unemployment Insurance
- 3 The Brief Life of the Sheppard–Towner Act
- 4 The Remarkable Expansion of Medicaid
- 5 The Rise and Demise of General Revenue Sharing
- 6 How Superfund Sowed the Seeds of Its Own Instability
- 7 No Child Left Behind and the Politics of State Resistance
- 8 Policy Design, Polarization, and the Affordable Care Act
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction
States as Stakeholders
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 September 2019
Book contents
- Responsive States
- Responsive States
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Federalism and Policy Feedback
- 2 The Surprising Persistence of Unemployment Insurance
- 3 The Brief Life of the Sheppard–Towner Act
- 4 The Remarkable Expansion of Medicaid
- 5 The Rise and Demise of General Revenue Sharing
- 6 How Superfund Sowed the Seeds of Its Own Instability
- 7 No Child Left Behind and the Politics of State Resistance
- 8 Policy Design, Polarization, and the Affordable Care Act
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
After the November 2016 elections gave the Republican Party unified control over the presidency and both chambers of Congress, its longstanding goal of “repealing and replacing” the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) seemed to be well within its reach. The House of Representatives voted to eradicate the central domestic policy accomplishment of the Obama administration in early May 2017, at which point all eyes turned to the Senate. Since Senate Republicans were using the reconciliation process to circumvent the possibility of a Democratic filibuster and held only a 52–48 majority in the chamber, media attention focused on the handful of GOP senators viewed as capable of bucking the party line.
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- Responsive StatesFederalism and American Public Policy, pp. 1 - 12Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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