Showing posts with label federalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label federalism. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 27, 2022

States Rights and Bureaucracy

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 Reading Dr. Deborah Brix 's " Silent Invasion ", her memoir of her work in the pandemic. It's basically chronological, an...
Friday, June 03, 2022

How to Build Infrastructure and State Capacity

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 Ezra Klein has an essay on building government infrastructure. Some thoughts on the topic, most unrealistic in today's polity: review ...
Sunday, April 10, 2022

The Dormant Commerce Clause

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This Adler pos t at Volokh led me to this explanation o f the dormant commerce clause.  The Constitution gives Congress the power to regul...
Thursday, April 07, 2022

Is Federalism Good or Bad?

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 It's hard to tell, because it depends on whose ox is gored. For example, California seems to be leading the way on animal welfare--impo...
Thursday, October 28, 2021

COBOL and Our Government

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 Interesting paper via Marginal Revolution--a scholar found that inefficiencies and delay in  states still using COBOL to run their unempl...
Wednesday, January 09, 2019

Our Decentralized Systems

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John Phipps twitted about this piece, specifically this: This industry, and in particular the few groups who control the narrative, need ...
Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Security Through Chaos

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An Atlantic piece on how our political system is so chaotic there's no way to know how compromised our elections are. That's the...
Saturday, June 10, 2017

Laboratories of Democracy: the Case of the US

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Justice Brandeis praised states as " laboratories of democracy", considering federalism is a way for states to experiment with dif...