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Interstate Cooperation Compacts and Administrative Agreements
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Joseph F. Zimmerman
Book Code: C7756
ISBN: 0-275-97756-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97756-6
272 pages, figures, maps
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 8/30/2002
List Price: $105.00 (UK Sterling Price: £59.95)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • Interstate Cooperation offers a fine review of the history and evolution of interstate compacts....[a] significant contribution in surveying interstate cooperative practices covering many fields that heretofore have not been presented in an overview and evolutionary context.
    —Publius     Spring 2003
Description: Zimmerman places in perspective the important roles played by interstate compacts and interstate administrative agreements in the governance systems of the United States. Compacts are identified and classified by type. Particular emphasis is placed on federal government promotion of compacts, including the U.S. Congress enactment of federal-state compacts in which the federal government joins member states as partners to achieve stated goals. Formal and informal interstate administrative agreements have increased in number dramatically during the past six decades and relate to both minor and very important issues. Credit for many interstate administrative agreements must be ascribed to associations of state government officers which encourage their members to promote interstate cooperation and also draft model state laws and administrative agreements. Although compacts and agreements have lubricated the functioning of the United States governmental system, as Zimmerman makes clear, the full potential of compacts and agreements has not been achieved to date, and he makes recommendations to improve the level of interstate cooperation. An important resource for scholars and students of American government--federal, state, and local--as well as administrators and policymakers.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Interstate Comity
  • The Constitution and Interstate Governance
  • The Compacting Process
  • Compact Commissions
  • Interstate Compacts sans Commissions
  • Formal and Informal Administrative Agreements
  • Interstate Cooperation: An Assessment
  • Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 2002022438
LCC Class: KF4618
Dewey Class: 342
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