Cooperative interstate relations are essential for maintaining the economic and political union established by the United States Constitution. Despite this importance, interstate compacts, federal-state compacts, and interstate administrative agreements have generally been neglected by political scientists for more than half a century. In this second edition of Interstate Cooperation, Joseph F. Zimmerman demonstrates that many public goals can be achieved by either a compact or an agreement. Interstate administrative agreements, moreover, may be verbal or written, and have increased sharply in number because their flexibility allows changes to be made quickly without legislative authorization. Zimmerman aims to stimulate additional research on these forms of interstate cooperation in order to help formulate additional innovative solutions to our major interstate problems.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Interstate Comity
2. Constitutional Interstate Governance
3. The Compacting Process
4. Compact Commissions
5. State-administered Compacts
6. Formal and Informal Administrative Agreements
7. Interstate Comity: An Assessment
Appendix A: Interstate Compacts Granted Congressional Consent
Appendix B: Federal-Interstate Compacts Granted Congressional Consent
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Über den Autor
Joseph F. Zimmerman is Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, State University of New York. His many books include
Horizontal Federalism: Interstate Relations;
Regulating the Business of Insurance in a Federal System; and
Congress: Facilitator of State Action, all published by SUNY Press.
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