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Beyond Marble Cakes and Picket Fences: What U.S. Federalism Scholars Can Learn from Comparative Work
Abstract
Scholarship on federalism seems to reside in two worlds: that of U.S. federalism scholars and that of comparative and non-U.S. scholars. There is little evidence of cross-fertilization of research across the two worlds—especially U.S. scholars reading and citing comparative federalism work. This article describes what U.S. scholars are missing and how U.S. scholarship might be enriched from tapping into comparative federalism research.
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“Not only are states not separate, atomized polities from each other horizontally; they are embedded in complex relationships with the federal government vertically in a structure resembling more of a ' marble cake ' than the ' layer cake ' of classical dual federalism (Weissert 2011).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Weissert, C. S.
- Affiliations
- Florida State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Weissert, Carol S.
- ORCID
- Weissert, Carol S.
- Venue
- The Journal of Politics
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2011-10
- Volume
- 73
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 965-979
- ISSN
- 0022-3816 (ISSN-L)
- 1468-2508
- OpenAlex
- W2144963092
- Cited by
- 22
- References
- 158
- Citations by year
- 2025: 3 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 11.04
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Journal of Politics (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Political Systems and Governance
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Political Science Research and Education
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › American Constitutional Law and Politics
- Keywords
- comparative federalism, citation practices, research agenda, federalism theory
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