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“Multilevel Governance and European Integration” Wins APSA Book Award 

Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks, authors of Multi-level Governance and European Integration (Washington, DC: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001) have been awarded the 2023 Martha Derthick book award…

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Book on Canada’s Pandemic Response 

Kathy L. Brock and Geoffrey Hale have edited Managing Federalism Through Pandemic (Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2023). The book's essays analyze various aspects of Canada's…

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Roundtable on “Monitoring American Federalism” 

H-FedHist has hosted a roundtable, including reviews, of Christian G. Fritz's recent book, Monitoring American Federalism: The History of State Legislative Resistance. Read more here.

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American Federalism

C-Span Releases Video About “The Federalist” 

C-Span's "Books that Shaped America" video series has released an episode exploring The Federalist. You can view the video here. 

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Other Federal Countries

Book on Canadian Federalism 

Kathy L. Brock and Geoffrey Hale have written Federalism in Canada: Evolving Constitutional, Political, and Social Realities (Toronto: Irwin Law Inc., 2023). The authors explore the characteristics…

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Other Federal Countries

Book on Federalism and Quebec 

Andrew McDougall has written Sleeping Dogs: Quebec and the Stabilization of Canadian Federalism After 1995 (Univ. of Toronto Press: Toronto, 2023). The author explores…

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Book on Federalism Studies

Carol S. Weissert has authored Rethinking Federalism Studies (Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar, 2023). The book explores the linking of scholarship to the politics of federalism in…

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Book on Federalist Thought in Quebec

Antoine Brousseau Desaulniers and Stéphane Savard have edited Contemporary Federalist Thought in Quebec (Quebec: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023). Read more here.

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Book on Federalism and Climate

Alan Fenna, Sébastien Jodoin, and Joana Setzer have edited Climate Governance and Federalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023). The book explores whether federations tend to help…

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Book Suggests New Approach to the Study of Federalism Needed

A group of scholars have written Putting Federalism in Its Place: The Territorial Politics of Social Policy Revisited (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2023). The…

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Review of “Teaching Federalism: Multidimensional Approaches”

Jan Erk has reviewed Teaching Federalism: Multidimensional Approaches, by CSF fellows John Kincaid and J. Wesley Leckrone. Read more here.

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Book on Federalization in Myanmar

Dulyapak Preecharush has published The Politics of Federalization in Myanmar (Routledge, 2023). Preecharush argues that federalization has re-emerged on Myanmar’s political agenda since the political transition…

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American Federalism

Book on Federalism and Educational Accountability

John Portz has written Educational Accountability and American Federalism (New York: Routledge, 2023). The book explores the types of accountability that take place in different institutional settings…

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