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Preemption
What is Preemption?, Local Solutions Support Center (LSSC)
Preemption occurs when a higher level of government limits or eliminates the authority of a lower level to regulate certain issues. The article explains how this tool has increasingly been used by states to block local policies, often at the urging of corporate interests.
Exploring the Impacts of Preemption, National League of Cities (NLC)
This report analyzes how state preemption affects local governments’ ability to respond to community needs, especially in areas like labor, housing, and public health. It finds that preemption often weakens local democracy and disproportionately harms marginalized communities.
Preemption in Michigan
Evaluating Local-Option Admissions Taxes in Michigan, Citizens Research Council of Michigan
This study evaluates the potential for Michigan municipalities to adopt local admissions taxes (also called entertainment taxes) as a revenue source. It concludes that such taxes could provide fiscal flexibility to cities and would be in line with peer states, but that cities are preempted by state law and must first get permission from the legislatur to enact such taxes.
State Preemption of Local Government Authority in Michigan, Michigan State University
This analysis documents the extent to which Michigan has expanded state preemption over local governments in recent decades. It highlights how these policies restrict local control across issues like wages, benefits, and environmental regulation.
Municipal Solidarity Index, Michigan AFL-CIO Advocates
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Protecting Local Authority in State Constitutions and Challenging Intrastate Preemption, Emily S.P. Baxter, University of Michigan Law School
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An abridged history of Michigan’s rent control ban, Michigan Public
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An Era of Preemption: Questioning Michigan’s Prevailing Minimum Wage, Michigan Journal of Economics, University of Michigan Department of Economics
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Fall 2016 Michigan Public Policy Survey (MPPS), University of Michigan Center for Local, State and Urban Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
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Workers Rights and Labor Preemption
Workers’ rights preemption in the U.S. map, Economic Policy Institute (EPI)
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Housing Preemption
Housing preemption in the U.S. map, Local Solutions Support Center (LSSC)
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Emergency Management
Before, During, and After Emergency Management: Undemocratic Urban Governance and Fiscal Responsibility in Post-industrial Interracial Suburbs, 1971-2023, Reuben Riggs-Bookman
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Emergency Manager Law Primer, Protecting the Public’s Health During Financial Emergencies: Lessons Learned from the Flint Water Crisis, University of Michigan School of Public Health
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What ‘Emergency’ Does: Democratic Decline and the Politics of Inevitability, Mo Torres, Harvard University
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