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Should Paid Parental Leave Be Decided by the States?
POSTED | Feb 21, 2019
Vanessa Brown Calder suggests that, contrary to President Trump's stated support for a federal family paid leave policy, states and localities would be better suited...More
Greenhouse Gas Litigation Highlights Canadian Balance of Power Issues
POSTED | Feb 21, 2019
Martin Olszynski writes that litigation of the federal government's greenhouse gas pricing plan concerns not only the constitutionality of the plan, but also the balance...More
Will Federalism Blunt a "Transgressive Presidency"?
POSTED | Feb 20, 2019
CSF Fellow John Kincaid writes that the complex characteristics of American federalism will thwart "the worst initiatives of Donald Trump's presidency." Read more here.
States Offer U.S. Marijuana Industry Opportunities Despite Federal Ban
POSTED | Feb 20, 2019
Writing that, "happily, we have federalism," Bill Alpert reports that the legalization of marijuana continues to progress despite the federal ban on the substance. Read more...More
Canadian Child Advocacy Group Joins Climate-Change Litigation
POSTED | Feb 20, 2019
The Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children has recently intervened in climate-change related litigation, arguing that children are particularly vulnerable to the negative effects...More
Republicans Seek to Stop Voter-Approved Medicaid Expansions
POSTED | Feb 19, 2019
Mattie Quinn reports that in every state where ballot measures to expand Medicaid have passed, Republicans have tried to undermine the expansion measures. Read more here.
States Prepare for Future Shutdowns
POSTED | Feb 19, 2019
Federal government shutdowns -- and the continued threat of them -- have led several states to take steps to be better prepared in the event...More
States Seek Federal Help in Combating Invasive Species
POSTED | Feb 19, 2019
Damage caused by invasive animals and plants have prompted states to seek increased federal assistance in combating the problem. Read more here.
Federalism, Interstate Development, and the Indian Inter-States Council
POSTED | Feb 18, 2019
Sudipto Mundle analyses the discrepancy among development indicators in India through the lens of education services. He recommends that discrepancies among states could be better...More
Federalism and "Imperial Manila"?
POSTED | Feb 18, 2019
In an op-ed, Cielito F. Habito warns that if the nation shifts to a federal form of government, the economic gap between many regions in...More
Book on the Quebec Conference of 1864
POSTED | Feb 18, 2019
Eugénie Brouillet, et al., have edited The Quebec Conference of 1864 (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018). The book's essays reflect the renewed historical interest in the Quebec-Canada...More
Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers and Gender Equality in India
POSTED | Feb 18, 2019
Writing that "fiscal federalism with asymmetry in revenue and expenditure assignments inevitably leads to vertical and horizontal imbalances in public service provisioning," several scholars have examined...More
Trump and Cuomo Discuss SALT Tax
POSTED | Feb 15, 2019
New York governor Andrew Cuomo met with President Donald Trump this week to discuss the cap on the state-and-local tax deduction, which Cuomo asserts has...More
Police Federalism
POSTED | Feb 15, 2019
Trevor George Gardner reviews the cultural and legal history of efforts to make state and local police subordinate to federal objectives. Gardner examines this "police...More
State Tax Limits On Local Tax Rates
POSTED | Feb 15, 2019
Ariel Jurow Kleiman explores how state-level property-tax limits on local tax rates affect the distribution of political power between local voters and policymakers. Kleiman argues...More