The Robust Federation offers a comprehensive approach to the study
of federalism. Jenna Bednar demonstrates how complementary
institutions maintain and adjust the distribution of authority
between national and state governments. These authority boundaries
matter - for defense, economic growth, and adequate political
representation - and must be defended from opportunistic
transgression. From Montesquieu to Madison, the legacy of early
institutional analysis focuses attention on the value of
competition between institutions, such as the policy moderation
produced through separated powers. Bednar offers a reciprocal
theory: in an effective constitutional system, institutions
complement one another; each makes the others more powerful.
Diverse but complementary safeguards - including the courts,
political parties, and the people - cover different transgressions,
punish to different extents, and fail under different
circumstances. The analysis moves beyond equilibrium conceptions
and explains how the rules that allocate authority are not fixed
but shift gradually. Bednar's rich theoretical characterization of
complementary institutions provides the first holistic account of
federal robustness.
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