The Pros And Cons Of Under New Federalism

A president is truly affective when he is able to get his policy agenda through Congress. For him to do this, it is paramount that he has the support from the majority of the public. When a president is unpopular, members of Congress will have little incentive to pass his preferred legislation, since doing so will potentially have negative consequences for them (i.e. not winning reelection). It is also important that the president be a competent negotiator if he is to get his agenda passed. It is unrealistic for a president to expect that he will get all aspects of a particular agenda item passed without making his concessions. A president who oversteps and abuses his role, will face harsh backlash from the public, and thus, Congress. This

In other words, it was a rethinking of the relationship between the federal government and state governments (158). Under New Federalism, federal involvement is desirable in the following instances: (1) policies that prove to have positive externalities; (2) the process of providing predictable, streamlined welfare and other transfer programs; and (3) policies that prove to have a positive influence on how others act (158). Conditions outside of these parameters are left to state and local government to deal with. The core of New Federalism rests in how revenue is split between the federal government and the states. Under this system, revenue splitting would be either “general” or “special” in nature. General revenue sharing “refers to money provided to state and local governments on an essentially unconditional basis” (159). Special revenue sharing “refers to grants to state and local governments provided in broad functional areas – community development, education, employment and training, law enforcement, and social services – with relatively few conditions attached” (159). The general revenue scheme of splitting tax revenue was passed by Congress, however in 1987, it was discontinued by President Ronald Reagan (159). The concept of special revenue sharing did pass Congress, but the term was changed to a more politically acceptable term, block

In Joan Hoff’s paper, “A Revisionist View of Nixon’s Foreign Policy,” Nixon’s achievements are laid out. The intellectual groundwork of Nixon’s foreign policy resides in the “Nixon Doctrine,” which rested on the “formal institutionalization of the policy of Vietnamization, that is, US support for regional security and local self-sufficiency generally in the Far East” and in which “allowed the United States to begin to resolve the contradiction that had plagued its foreign policy throughout the Cold War containment years: how to maintain its commitments abroad while at the same time reducing direct military involvement”