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American Federalism

March 5, 2020

Book Calls for Revised Federalism

Donald F. Kettl has authored The Divided States of America: Why Federalism Doesn't Work (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press, 2020). Kettl writes that although federalism was…

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February 6, 2020

Review of Book on European Local Autonomy

A review of Patterns of Local Autonomy in Europe (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2019) is available. Read more here and here.

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January 30, 2020

Book on Regional Integration, Multilevel Governance, and the EU

Jae-Jae Spoon and Nils Ringe have edited The European Union and Beyond: Multi-Level Governance, Institutions, and Policy-Making (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020). The book's chapters…

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January 24, 2020

Book on Separatist Parties Reviewed

Erika Arban has reviewed The Nationalism of the Rich: Discourses and Strategies of Separatist Parties in Catalonia, Flanders, Northern Italy and Scotland (password required). Read more here.

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American Federalism

January 3, 2020

Book on Federalism, Unions, and the Wagner Act

Alexis N. Walker has written Divided Unions: The Wagner Act, Federalism, and Organized Labor (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020). Walker contends that the exclusion of…

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January 1, 2020

Book on Federalism, Trump, and the Administrative Presidency

Frank J. Thompson, Kenneth K. Wong, and Barry G. Rabe have authored  Trump, the Administrative Presidency, and Federalism (Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2020). The authors…

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December 17, 2019

New Book: “A Research Agenda for Federalism Studies”

John Kincaid has edited A Research Agenda for Federalism Studies (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019), ISBN 9781 78811 2963. In this book, leading scholars from…

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American Federalism

December 6, 2019

Book on Federalism and American Public Policy

Andrew Karch and Shanna Rose have written Responsive States: Federalism and American Public Policy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019). The book explore how federalism has influenced…

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American Federalism

November 22, 2019

Federalism’s Role in Abolition

Stanley Harrold has written American Abolitionism: Its Direct Impact from Colonial Times into Reconstruction (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019). The book examines -- among other aspects…

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November 14, 2019

New Essay Collection on Federalism in Ancient Greece

Hans Beck, et al., have edited Ethnos and Koinon: Studies in Ancient Greek Ethnicity and Federalism (Stuttgart: Steiner Franz Verlag, 2019). The essays in this volume explore the often…

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American Federalism

October 16, 2019

Book on Federalism and Marijuana Policy

Jonathan H. Adler has edited Marijuana Federalism: Uncle Sam and Mary Jane (Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2020). The book's essays explore issues flowing from the…

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American Federalism

October 3, 2019

Book Offers Introduction to Federalism

Mark J. Rozell and Clyde Wilcox have authored Federalism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxon: Oxford University Press, 2019). Part of the publisher's "Very Short…

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American Federalism

August 30, 2019

New Book on Pennsylvania Politics and Policy

CSF fellow J. Wesley Leckrone has co-edited Pennsylvania Politics and Policy: A Commonwealth Reader, Volume 2 (Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 2019). The book explores governmental institutions and a variety…

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