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State and Local Government Law

2007

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Local government

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Wrestling With Muds To Pin Down The Truth About Special Districts, Sara Galvan May 2007

Wrestling With Muds To Pin Down The Truth About Special Districts, Sara Galvan

Sara C. Bronin

Federal, state, and local governments encourage and empower special districts—board-run, special purpose local government units that are administratively and fiscally independent from general purpose local governments. Special districts receive incentives, grants, and freedom from limitations (such as limitations on tax and debt) imposed on general purpose local governments. Special districts are treated favorably because they are small in size, which theoretically means they foster democratic participation; are limited in purpose, meaning that states can tailor the special districts' powers to serve specific problems; and are viewed as efficient solutions to specific problems. Though special districts have tripled in number over …

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A Localist's Case For Decentralizing Immigration Policy, Matthew J. Parlow Dec 2006

A Localist's Case For Decentralizing Immigration Policy, Matthew J. Parlow

Matthew Parlow

In the past year, local governments have made a foray into the hotly debated arena of immigration law and policy by adopting laws to address illegal immigration in their respective jurisdictions. Courts have struck down many of these laws on the grounds that they are preempted pursuant to a traditional view of federalism. From a localist perspective, however, this is troubling for two reasons. First, traditional federalism fails to recognize local control and autonomy by insisting on treating local governments as mere arms of the state. Instead of the traditional two-tier, federal-state federalism model, localists favor a more modern view …

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