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Publius: The Journal of Federalism 1991 21(3):59-75;
© 1991 by CSF Associates Inc.
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"Mad" About Mandates: The Issue of Who Should Pay for What Resurfaces in the 1990s

Susan A. MacManus
University of South Florida Tampa

In 1990, constitutional amendment proposals were put before the voters in Florida and Wisconsin (nonbinding) to limit unfunded state mandates. This brought the number of states with constitutionally based mandate-reimbursement requirements to fifteen. Voter support was garnered by attributing local property-tax increasesand loss oflocalcontrol over spending priorities to unfundedstate mandates. The Florida and Wisconsin efforts came close on the heels of stale mandate studies by the U.S. General Accounting Office, National Conference of State Legislatures, Urban Institute, and U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. Fifty-two hypotheses are generatedfrom these studies and the Florida and Wisconsin cases to help structure future research. As the mandate limitation movement spreads, larger data bases will be available with which to test these propositions. In the states that already have limits on unfunded state mandates, research will shift to the policy consequences of these restrictions.


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