Impacts: Competitiveness A. Federalism is key to competitiveness Kincaid 90 - Professor of Law, Executive Director at the US Advisory Commission - off (John, “Annals the American Academy of Political and Social Vol. 509, American Federalism: The Third Science” Century, pp. 139-152, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1046444) The chief political objective of competition is to prevent tyranny a monopolization of public or private – power. As a fundamental principle of liberal democracy, competition is embedded in democratic notions of elections, economic behavior, and church-state separation, among others. Yet steady efforts have been made to drive competition out of federalism, first by the Federalist founders who sought to end ruinous economic competition between the states, then by the dual federalist who sought to segregate public and private power and federal and state power, and then by the cooperative federalist who sought to counteract economic monopolization with majoritarian federal power. It is not without reason that competitive federalism has a bad name in many circles; nevertheless, federalism can hardly survive without competitive tensions, especially a competitive federal-state tension that can prevent one partner from swallowing the other. B. Competitiveness key to hegemony Khalilzad, 1995 (Zalmay, Senior Analyst at the Moment? The United States and the World RAND, “Losing After the Cold Washington Quarterly, Spring, Lexis) War,” The United States is unlikely to preserve its military and technological dominance if the U.S. economy declines domestic economic and political base for global seriously. In such an environment, the leadership would diminish and the United States would probably withdraw from the incrementally world, become inward-looking, and abandon more and more of its external interests. As the United States weakened, others would To sustain and improve its economic strength, the United States must maintain try to fill the Vacuum. its technological lead in the economic realm. Its success will depend on the choices it makes. In the past, developments produced fundamental changes positively such as the agricultural and industrial revolutions affecting the relative position of those who were able to take advantage of them and negatively affecting those who did not. Some argue that the world may be at the beginning of another such transformation, which will shift the sources of wealth and If the United States fails to recognize the change and adapt its the relative position of classes and nations. institutions, its relative position will necessarily worsen.
Impacts: Competitiveness A. Federalism is key to competitiveness Kincaid 90 - Professor of Law, Executive Director at the US Advisory Commission - (John, “Annals off the American Academy of Political and Social Science” Vol. 509, American Federalism: The Third Century, pp. 139-152, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1046444) The chief political objective of competition is to prevent tyranny – a monopolization of public or private power. As a fundamental principle of liberal democracy, competition is embedded in democratic notions of elections, economic behavior, and church-state separation, among others. Yet steady efforts have been made to drive competition out of federalism, first by the Federalist founders who sought to end ruinous economic competition between the states, then by the dual federalist who sought to segregate public and private power and federal and state power, and then by the cooperative federalist who sought to counteract economic monopolization with majoritarian federal power. It is not without reason that competitive federalism has a bad name in many circles; nevertheless, federalism can hardly survive without competitive tensions, especially a competitive federal-state tension that can prevent one partner from swallowing the other. B. Competitiveness key to hegemony Khalilzad, 1995 (Zalmay, Senior Analyst at RAND, “Losing the Moment? The United States and the World After the Cold War,” Washington Quarterly, Spring, Lexis) The United States is unlikely to preserve its military and technological dominance if the U.S. economy declines seriously. In such an environment, the domestic economic and political base for global leadership would diminish and the United States would probably incrementally withdraw from the world, become inward-looking, and abandon more and more of its external interests. As the United States weakened, others would try to fill the Vacuum. To sustain and improve its economic strength, the United States must maintain its technological lead in the economic realm. Its success will depend on the choices it makes. In the past, developments such as the agricultural and industrial revolutions produced fundamental changes positively affecting the relative position of those who were able to take advantage of them and negatively affecting those who did not. Some argue that the world may be at the beginning of another such transformation, which will shift the sources of wealth and the relative position of classes and nations. If the United States fails to recognize the change and adapt its institutions, its relative position will necessarily worsen.
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