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416 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. xi (1974)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0416 and id is 1 raw text is: PREFACE

This is the third volume of THE ANNALS to be devoted to the topic of
intergovernmental relations: the first, a pioneering effort edited by the late,
eminent W. Brooke Graves in 1940, and the second, a worthy follow-up
edited by Harry Reynolds in 1965. With a twenty-five year lapse between
the first two volumes, one might legitimately ask why a third volume was
deemed necessary in only nine years. The answer emerges clearly on a
perusal of the articles that follow: intergovernmental relations have become
central to the operations of American government-they are at its very
core and are likely to remain so. Moreover, they have come to be
institutionalized in government operations and to be recognized by
scholars and lay citizens alike as being of central importance to the function-
ing of American government. Also, of course, the Johnson and Nixon
administrations focused attention on intergovernmental relations as did
none of their predecessors. Thus, nine years is none too soon for a
reappraisal of so vital a force in American government. Indeed, periodic
appraisals would now seem to be in order.
Authors of the articles that make up this issue were all first choices:
each is an acknowledged expert on his subject. Together, their final products
constitute as perceptive an analysis of American intergovernmental relations
as is currently possible. Appreciation is a mild word for my feeling about
their efforts.
RICHARD H. LEACH

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