G.Ross Stephens is Professor of Political Science and Public Administration (Emeritus) at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. Nelson Wikstrom is Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at Virginia Commonwealth University.

• Preface ; Acknowledgements ; 1. The United States as a Federal System: Theories, Insights, & Experience ; 2. Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations: Concepts, Models, and the American Experience ; 3. Contemporary American Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations: Cooperation and Conflict ; Cast Study 1. Homeland Security: Intergovernmental Response ; 4. Fiscal Federalism ; 5. Federal Intergovernmental Relations: The National Policy Process & Public Policy ; Case Study 2. No Child Left Behind ; 6. Regulation in the Intergovernmental System ; 7. The Resurgent States in the Intergovernmental System ; Case Study 3 . Welfare to Work ; 8. State-Local Relations ; 9. Local Governments in the American Intergovernmental System ; Case Study 4. Semi-Independent State and Local Agencies: Special Districts, Authorities, and Government Corporations ; 10. Intergovernmental Relations: Present and Future ; Selected Bibliography ; Index

G.Ross Stephens is Professor of Political Science and Public Administration (Emeritus) at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. Nelson Wikstrom is Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at Virginia Commonwealth University.

• Preface ; Acknowledgements ; 1. The United States as a Federal System: Theories, Insights, & Experience ; 2. Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations: Concepts, Models, and the American Experience ; 3. Contemporary American Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations: Cooperation and Conflict ; Cast Study 1. Homeland Security: Intergovernmental Response ; 4. Fiscal Federalism ; 5. Federal Intergovernmental Relations: The National Policy Process & Public Policy ; Case Study 2. No Child Left Behind ; 6. Regulation in the Intergovernmental System ; 7. The Resurgent States in the Intergovernmental System ; Case Study 3 . Welfare to Work ; 8. State-Local Relations ; 9. Local Governments in the American Intergovernmental System ; Case Study 4. Semi-Independent State and Local Agencies: Special Districts, Authorities, and Government Corporations ; 10. Intergovernmental Relations: Present and Future ; Selected Bibliography ; Index

G.Ross Stephens is Professor of Political Science and Public Administration (Emeritus) at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. Nelson Wikstrom is Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at Virginia Commonwealth University.

• Preface ; Acknowledgements ; 1. The United States as a Federal System: Theories, Insights, & Experience ; 2. Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations: Concepts, Models, and the American Experience ; 3. Contemporary American Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations: Cooperation and Conflict ; Cast Study 1. Homeland Security: Intergovernmental Response ; 4. Fiscal Federalism ; 5. Federal Intergovernmental Relations: The National Policy Process & Public Policy ; Case Study 2. No Child Left Behind ; 6. Regulation in the Intergovernmental System ; 7. The Resurgent States in the Intergovernmental System ; Case Study 3 . Welfare to Work ; 8. State-Local Relations ; 9. Local Governments in the American Intergovernmental System ; Case Study 4. Semi-Independent State and Local Agencies: Special Districts, Authorities, and Government Corporations ; 10. Intergovernmental Relations: Present and Future ; Selected Bibliography ; Index