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Adv Federalism Addendum 5
Adv Federalism Addendum 5
Economy internals
Link, federalism is key to the Economy
Jan K. Brueckner Department of Economics University of California, Irvine 3151 Social
Science Plaza Irvine, CA 92697 e-mail: jkbrueck@uci.edu October 2005
The analysis shows that federalism, which allows public-good levels to be tailored to
suit the differing demands of young and old consumers, who live in different
jurisdictions, increases the incentive to save. This stronger incentive in turn leads to
an increase in investment in human capital, and a byproduct of this higher
investment is faster economic growth.
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Federalism Adv Addendum
Competitiveness internal
Link, Federalism improves competitiveness through decentralization.
Steven G. Calabresi, Associate Professor, Northwestern University School of Law Michigan Law Review
December, 1995, 94 Mich. L. Rev. 752
Improved Quality of Governmental Decisionmaking and Administration can be acheived. Decentralized
governments make better decisions than centralized ones for reasons additional to the whip they feel from
competition. Decentralization ensures that "those responsible for choosing a given social policy are made aware of
the costs of that policy." This helps ensure a more informed weighing of costs and benefits than often occurs at
the national level where taxpayers often may be less cognizant of the social costs of particular legislation.
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Less budget and more efficiency is guaranteed on the state level of jurisdiction.
Steven G. Calabresi, Associate Professor, Northwestern University School of Law Michigan Law Review
December, 1995, 94 Mich. L. Rev. 752
In addition and just as importantly, governmental agency costs often is lower at the state level than at the
national level because monitoring costs may be lower where fewer programs, employees, and amounts of tax
revenue are involved. The smaller size of the state governmental jurisdictions thus makes it far easier for
citizens to exercise a greater and more effective degree of control over their government officials. For this
reason, it often makes sense to lodge dangerous and intrusive police powers over crime and over controversial social
issues in the states where government officials may be monitored more easily by the citizenry.
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AT: Permutation
Cooperation federalism worsens action’s efficiency and results in conflicting sovereignties.
Redish, Pmkssor of Law Northwestern Lniiiriitj School of Lam 1985. (Martin H.; "Supreme Court Review of
State Court "Federal" Decisions: A Study in Interactive Federalism", Gcorgia Law Review, 19 Ga. L. Rev. 861,
I1.D.)
As Professor Corwin's description of the concept indicates, dual federalism is generally assumed to imply an
inherent equality between the two distinct sovereigns in the federal system. Thus, any rejection of dual federalism
in favor of some form of cooperative federalism is thought, at least potentially, to permit a reduction in state
power relative to that of the federal government. Of course, if one includes as an essential element of the
definition of dual federalism the equal stature of the competing sovereigns, then to suggest that the concept
inherently requires equality amounts to a tautology. But, if one instead focuses upon the abstract nature of the
state-federal relation under the structures of both dual and co-operative federalism, then it is by no means clear
that viewing the two sovereigns as distinct and antagonistic entities with discrete jurisdictions necessarily
provides greater power to the states than does a system in which the two sovereigns interact substantially in
the exercise of their often concurrent jurisdictions.