• Picket-fence federalism is “a model of federalism in which specific programs and policies (depicted as vertical pickets in a picket fence) involve all levels of government –national, state, and local (depicted by the horizontal board in a picket fence)” (Gov. Chapter 3 Flashcards). The picket-fence federalism mean that Bureaucratic communicate with each other on all levels of government, while the elected officials comes and goes. The elected officials are replaceable. An example of the picket-fence federalism seem in the local government has to do with the Council of Government. Texas has 254 members and 12 regions that represent their lower level of government. Their lower level of government is represented by the multijurisdictional
