"marble-cake federalism" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1967 March 16, Lou Panos, “Inside Baltimore”, in The Evening Sun, volume 114, number 127, Baltimore, Md., page D1, columns 1–2",
          "text": "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”?",
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          "ref": "1978, Peter Woll, American Government: Readings and Cases, Little, Brown and Company, page 87",
          "text": "Unlike the divided-powers model, the notion of marble-cake federalism is undoubtedly more realistic.",
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          "ref": "1981, Paul E. Peterson, City Limits, Chicago, Ill., London: The University of Chicago Press, page 90",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1991, Jack E. Holmes, Michael J. Engelhardt, Robert E. Elder, American Government: Essentials & Perspectives, McGraw-Hill, Inc., page 80",
          "text": "In setting out to discover who would dare inundate his property, he received a firsthand lesson in marble-cake federalism.",
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          "ref": "1994 June 1, John McClaughry, “Vermont Sheriff Takes on Federal Government”, in Rutland Daily Herald, volume 138, number 131, Rutland, Vt., page 15, columns 3–4",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2001, Paul Soifer, Abraham Hoffman, D. Stephen Voss, CliffsQuickReview American Government, Hungry Minds, Inc., page 153",
          "text": "The theory of marble-cake federalism suggests that almost every public policy involves cooperation among multiple levels of government.",
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          "ref": "2013, Jay M. Shafritz, E. W. Russell, Christopher P. Borick, Introducing Public Administration, Routledge, published 2016",
          "text": "Marble-cake federalism is usually associated with Morton Grodzins, who made a famous example out of the case of rural county health officials called sanitarians.",
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          "ref": "2013, David Emanuelson, Leisure Services Financial Management, Human Kinetics, page 139",
          "text": "Yosemite National Park in California, with its large areas of protected wilderness, is a popular tourist destination and an example of marble-cake federalism—state and local governments also provide public parks.",
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          "ref": "2021, Francesco Taroni, Health and Healthcare Policy in Italy since 1861: A Comparative Approach, Palgrave Macmillan, page 239",
          "text": "The governance of the disjointed form of “marble-cake” federalism, which was emerging at the dawn of the century, would have required a robust system of institutions facilitating the relations among the regions and between the regions and the state.",
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          "ref": "1967 March 16, Lou Panos, “Inside Baltimore”, in The Evening Sun, volume 114, number 127, Baltimore, Md., page D1, columns 1–2",
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          "text": "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.",
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