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Making Federalism Work: Lessons From Health Care For The Green New Deal, Jesse M. Cross, Shelley Welton
Making Federalism Work: Lessons From Health Care For The Green New Deal, Jesse M. Cross, Shelley Welton
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For decades, federalism had a bad reputation. It often was perceived as little more than a cover for state resistance to civil rights and other social justice reforms. More recently, however, progressive scholars have argued that federalism can meaningfully advance nationalist ends. According to these scholars, federalism allows for spaces in which norms can be contested, developed, and extended. This new strain of scholarship also recognizes, however, that these federalist structures can still shield national-level reforms from reaching all Americans. Many see such gaps as a regrettable but unavoidable feature of our federalist system. But to embrace federalism as an …