marble-cake federalism

marble-cake federalism (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of marble cake federalism.
   • 1967 March 16, Lou Panos, “Inside Baltimore”, in The Evening Sun, volume 114, number 127, Baltimore, Md., page D1, columns 1–2:

     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”?

   • 1978, Peter Woll, American Government: Readings and Cases, Little, Brown and Company, page 87:

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

   • 1981, Paul E. Peterson, City Limits, Chicago, Ill., London: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 90:

     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.

   • 1991, Jack E. Holmes, Michael J. Engelhardt, Robert E. Elder, American Government: Essentials & Perspectives, McGraw-Hill, Inc., →ISBN, page 80:

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

   • 1994 June 1, John McClaughry, “Vermont Sheriff Takes on Federal Government”, in Rutland Daily Herald, volume 138, number 131, Rutland, Vt., page 15, columns 3–4:

     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.

   • 2001, Paul Soifer, Abraham Hoffman, D. Stephen Voss, CliffsQuickReview American Government, Hungry Minds, Inc., →ISBN, page 153:

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

   • 2013, Jay M. Shafritz, E. W. Russell, Christopher P. Borick, Introducing Public Administration, Routledge, published 2016, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2013, David Emanuelson, Leisure Services Financial Management, Human Kinetics, →ISBN, page 139:

     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.

   • 2021, Francesco Taroni, Health and Healthcare Policy in Italy since 1861: A Comparative Approach, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 239:

     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.