Tense Commandments: Federal Prescriptions and City Problems Book

1	Introduction	1
	"Shift and Shaft"	3
	Exemplifying the Problem	8
	Plan of the Book	10
	Some Preliminaries	11
2	Problems	15
	The Trouble with Localism	16
	Mandating without Spending	17
	The Yellow Line	21
	One Size Does Not Fit All	26
	Zero Tolerance	29
	Adversarial Legalism	33
	Curing or Abetting the Mischiefs of Faction?	39
3	Tales from Six Cities	49
	Baltimore	50
	Philadelphia	56
	New York	64
	Chicago	71
	San Francisco	76
	Los Angeles	83
4	The Politics of Paternalism	93
	The Thirties and Sixties	93
	Quantum Leap	95
	The Rise of Environmentalism	98
	The Age of "Low Politics"	101
	The Courts in Charge	108
	Mandates without Money	116
5	Comparative Politics	120
	Fiscal Arrangements	121
	Legalism	126
	Other Elements of American Exceptionalism	129
	Decentralization	133
6	Conclusions	137
	The March of Mandates	138
	Too Much of a Good Thing	143
	Nostrums	145
	Making Progress	150
	Retrenchment	155
	Notes	161
	Index	209