Professor Lori Riverstone-Newell has published the third edition of The Local Power & Politics Review. The new edition features a series of articles that explore how abusive preemption legislation has impacted states across the country. It covers a wide range of issue areas, from public health policy to local environmental action to public schools to public safety to elections.
In the introduction, Riverstone-Newell explains that the articles in The Local Power & Politics Review “inspect recent and emerging concerns involving state preemption and other forms of overreach across five policy domains. Each article is written by a researcher-advocate team that combines its experiences and knowledge to present recent trends and threats to local power in their policy domain, the associated costs of local disempowerment, and potential strategies to combat or adapt to abusive state preemption and other forms of state overreach.”
The Local Power & Politics Review is a space where researchers and advocates engaged in combating abusive preemption can share ideas, strategies, and resources. The first edition was published in fall 2020; the second edition was published in March 2022.
