Question
In the 1970s, these polities received more general revenue sharing and non-earmarked block grants to reduce logrolling and pork barrel from categorical formula and project grants. For 10 points each:
[10e] Louis Brandeis dubbed what units of government “laboratories of democracy” for their autonomy under the Tenth Amendment?
ANSWER: states [or US states; accept states’ rights] (The first line describes features of Nixon’s “new federalism.”)
[10m] Federal preemption can subject states to these involuntary duties enforced with crossover sanctions. A 1995 reform act aimed to curb “federal blackmail” from these duties being “unfunded.”
ANSWER: mandates [accept unfunded mandates or Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995]
[10h] Germany’s 2006 federalism reform restricted unfunded mandates to achieve this paradigm’s devolutionary goal of self-administration. New Zealand’s accrual accounting inspired this movement to reinvent government like a business.
ANSWER: new public management [or NPM; prompt on public management; prompt on subsidiarity or Subsidiaritӓt; reject “new federalism”] (The Konnexitätsprinzip prohibits unfunded mandates.)
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 17 | 10.59 | 94% | 12% | 0% |
Data
| Chicago A | Cornell A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Illinois | Georgia Tech | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Harvard | Kentucky | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins | Iowa State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Toronto A | Maryland | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Northwestern | Brown | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn | Ottawa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Purdue | Indiana | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| South Carolina | McGill | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Minnesota A | Stanford | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia A | Texas | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Duke | Toronto B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Truman State | Berkeley B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | North Carolina A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Columbia B | WUSTL B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Waterloo | Chicago B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale A | Berkeley A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |