1. See Michael D. Tanner, Leviathan on the Right: How Big Government Conservatism Brought Down the Republican Revolution (Washington: Cato Institute, 2007); and Bruce Bartlett, Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy (New York: Doubleday, 2006).
2. Office of Management and Budget, Historical Tables, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2008, 25–26.
3. Ibid.
4. Office of Management and Budget, Analytical Perspectives, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2008, 107.
5. See U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (ACIR), Regulatory Federalism: Policy, Process, Impact and Reform (Washington, DC: Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 1984); and John Kincaid, “From Cooperative to Coercive Federalism,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 509 (May 1990): 139–152.