From Nation to States: The Small Cities Community by Edward T. Jennings
By Edward T. Jennings
The arrival of the Reagan administration’s "New Federalism" tasks in 1981 impacted country executive in several methods. One instance of this new period in intergovernmental relatives is the move of accountability of the Small towns group improvement Block supply application from the U.S. division of Housing and concrete improvement to kingdom governments. This quantity presents an summary of the Small towns CDBG application, an research of its politics, and an exam of the provide award strategies proven by means of the states. It concludes with an overview of the results of nation assumption for software actions, results, and management. Assessing this system move in the context of theories and practices of intergovernmental kinfolk and coverage execution, the ebook offers wealthy contextual details and an intensive comparability of implementation actions and outputs in seven states.
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In most states, state legislatures would play little direct role in CDBG program implementation other than authorizing the state to assume administrative responsibility for the program and, perhaps, officially appropriating the federal funds that were to be transferred to the state. The legislature would not set policy directly, but its preferences naturally would have to be taken into account. The governor was more likely to play a direct role, particularly in deciding which agency would administer the program and in setting some general guidelines for the direction the program would take in the state.
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Page 10 Clearly, such organizational choices held great potential for shaping the program's implementation. Devising a Technical Solution Many policies, especially legislative ones, are cast in generalities; typically, the policy making then moves to the phase of policy refinement, in which "an executive agency or bureau interprets congressional (or presidential) intent and provides the context in which policy will be carried out" (Dodd and Schott 1979:291292). In other words, agency personnel must translate legislative intent into operational terms.