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		<title>Are Governors Responsible for the State Economy? Partisanship, Blame, and Divided Federalism</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tooting my own horn: Here&#8217;s the university&#8217;s press release for my recent article. It gets things mostly right. A down economy usually spells trouble for incumbents, but a new study shows that six Republicans up for re-election this year caught a break when John McCain lost the last presidential election. The analysis found that some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Formal Model of Learning and Policy Diffusion</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those who advocate federalism argue that devolution improves policy outcomes nationwide by providing opportunities for local experimentation. In the words of Louis Brandeis, justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1932): It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fiscal Federalism and Tax Effort in the U.S. States</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The federal government gives billions of dollars to the 50 state governments as grants-in-aid, whether to fund schools, Medicaid, or whatever. The idea is this: The federal government gives states extra money so that they will increase spending in a particular area without having to cut spending elsewhere. But is that what really happens? Nicholson-Crotty [...]]]></description>
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