Assessing Commerce Clause Challenges by Studying Wine
An underappreciated, but highly contentious, area of interstate commerce deals with the sale, transportation, and distribution of alcohol across state lines. In the wake of Granholm v. Heald (2005), which struck down particular kinds of interstate direct shipment bans of alcohol as being unconstitutional, several states passed laws that regulated various aspects of the direct shipment of wine. While none of these laws explicitly contradicted Granholm v. Heald, several of them seem, on their face, to be contradicting the spirit of the Court's ruling. What are the likely economic effects of these laws? And how might courts assess whether these new laws are likely to undermine effective interstate commerce? A new policy brief, which draws on the research of CSDI Co-Director Alan Wiseman and Jerry Ellig (Mercatus Center at George Mason University) addresses precisely these questions, and provides some guidance on the likely impacts of these new laws for local wine markets, as well as suggesting a tool that courts might employ to assess the constitutionality of these new laws.
CSDI News and Announcements
05/11/13 The Monkey Cage published a new blog post by CSDI Co-Director Larry Bartels. White Vote by Income, 2012 examines a portion of survey data from the 2012 Cooperative Campaign Analysis Project.
05/10/13 Two new CSDI working papers titled Political Responsiveness and Agency Independence and The Diversity of Delegation and Consequences for Bureaucratic Responsiveness, have been released. Both were written by CSDI graduate affiliate, and doctoral candidate in political science, Jennifer L. Selin, Vanderbilt University.
05/09/13 A new CSDI working paper, titled Women's Issues and Their Fates in Congress written by Craig Volden, Professor of Politics and Public Policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia, Alan Wiseman, CSDI Co-Director and Associate Professor of Political Science and Law (by courtesy), and Dana Wittmer, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Colorado College, has been released.
NEW VU POLL SURVEYS REGISTERED VOTERS
By Jim Patterson
NASHVILLE - Tennesseans strongly support charter schools while their feelings about school vouchers are more divided, according to a new poll from the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions at Vanderbilt University. "A solid 66 percent of those polled support charter schools," said John Geer, co-director of the center. Thirty-five percent support a limited voucher program for low-income families in poor-performance schools, while 31 percent favor vouchers without such restrictions. Twenty-six percent oppose all school vouchers. Read More @ Vanderbilt News or go to http://bit.ly/13FCMxS for more poll results.
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