marble-cake federalism
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.93 in modern English
36
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
7
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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”?"
- "Unlike the divided-powers model, the notion of marble-cake federalism is undoubtedly more realistic."
- "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."
- "In setting out to discover who would dare inundate his property, he received a firsthand lesson in marble-cake federalism."
- "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."
- "The theory of marble-cake federalism suggests that almost every public policy involves cooperation among multiple levels of government."