Skip to main content

SAGE Social Science Thesaurus

Search from vocabulary

Concept information

Preferred term

federal mandates  

Definition

  • A federal mandate, or direct order, in the United States is a federal regulation that must be complied with by a subnational government under the threat of a criminal or civil sanction. There are myriad arrays of federal mandates involving a broad range of state and local functions and programs. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Federal Mandates]

Belongs to group

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-CWKGN3Q3-L

Download this concept: