People who take a "marble cake" view of federalism believe thatstate governments are too weak to meet most citizen needsstate governments are supreme over the national governmentnational and state governments cooperate to meet citizen needsnational government should entirely control the state governments

national and state governments cooperate to meet citizen needs

Explanation:

Adherents of "marble cake" federalism believe in federalism as a model of cooperation among layers of government: supranational, national, regional, local.

Therefore the local and state governments are not separated spheres, rather they have an interrelationship for common policy and administrative goals.

Grodznis is believed to have first used the term "marble cake" or "layer cake federalism" where the separated layers represent distinct spheres of power that are shared by both state and federal governments

The model assumes a measure of power, resources and programs between all the instances is present and a strong dependency and cooperation takes place.

Local actors are reinforced top bottom to create conditions where citizens feel strongly represented and thus identified.