Meaning of marble-cake federalism | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

Examples

“A Federal official said something about “marble-cake federalism” and warned we’ll be hearing the phrase quite often in the future. […] Mr. Lindley’s title is deputy assistant secretary, Department of Commerce. Can you think of a better title for somebody explaining “marble-cake federalism”?”

“Unlike the divided-powers model, the notion of marble-cake federalism is undoubtedly more realistic.”

“Second, Pressman and Wildavsky’s assertion that programs failed because participants had diverse views with respect to complex phenomena is at best a very low level theoretical statement. In this respect, Pressman and Wildavsky resemble the students of marble-cake federalism, who find relationships too complicated to identify critical elements patterning the complexity.”

“In setting out to discover who would dare inundate his property, he received a firsthand lesson in marble-cake federalism.”

“We are, supposedly, a federal republic, where each level of government has specified powers and duties. It is often characterized as “marble-cake federalism,” instead of “layer cake federalism,” because sometimes those powers and duties overlap.”

“The theory of marble-cake federalism suggests that almost every public policy involves cooperation among multiple levels of government.”

“Marble-cake federalism is usually associated with Morton Grodzins, who made a famous example out of the case of rural county health officials called sanitarians.”

“Yosemite National Park in California, with its large areas of protected wilderness, is a popular tourist destination and an example of marble-cake federalism—state and local governments also provide public parks.”

“The governance of the disjointed form of “marble-cake” federalism, which was emerging at the dawn of the century, would have required a robust system of institutions facilitating the relations among the regions and between the regions and the state.”

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