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Discussion Post: Dual and Cooperative Federalism
In the first lecture for this Module, I talked about the differences between dual federalism and cooperative federalism. Those may seem like somewhat abstract differences when you're living your day-to-day life, but as you've seen in the video I linked to about the state and federal level responses to Hurricane Katrina, what your conception of federalism is may really matter when push comes to shove.
Watch the video, and consider the question from my final lecture about federalism ("Federalism: National Preemption of State Laws"): what are the arguments for assigning a particular power to the federal or the state government?
Take a look at some of the arguments I provided in the lecture to get started, and apply what you've learned to the case of disaster response in general, and Hurricane Katrina specifically. Is disaster response a task that should be left to the feds, or should each state take care of their own?
Additionally, having witnessed some of the coverage of Hurricane Ida that hit Louisiana almost exactly 16 years after Hurricane Katrina did the same, how would you compare the government's response? Have lessons from Katrina been implemented., and if so, what stands out to you?