Catherine Powell explores whether and how artificial intelligence could pose a threat to democratic self-governance. She writes that "AI federalism" could offer a way…
Nadia Banteka writes that through federal deputization and joint task forces -- which lead to what Banteka terms "cross-sovereign policing" -- police officers wield overlapping…
An Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development paper analyzes how economies of scale affect the efficiency of local public-service delivery in multilevel governance systems. It…
The National Federalism Commission has updated its monthly commentary on federalism with a report titled, "American Federalism in an Age of Polarization." Read more…
Ken Boessenkool and Jared Wesley argue that Canada's provinces, rather than the national government, should have more control over universal healthcare policies. Read more…
Nicholas Aroney, Renato Costa, and Terefe Gebreyesus discuss their new book, Federalism in a Turbulent Era. The scholars explore how different federal nations have…
Jonathan Shorman reports that at least twenty-three states have banned betting on elections even as the federal Commodity Futures Trading Commission continues that assert that…
Davide Vampa considers what effect recent elections in Germany could have on German federalism, including the possibility that dramatic electoral shifts could make state governments hard…
Yan Xu has edited Fiscal Federalism: Law, Politics, and Economics (Oxon: Oxford University Press, 2026). The book offers an interdisciplinary and comparative review of…
The Welsh first minister, Rhun ap Iorwerth, has urged UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham to treat Wales "not as a region of England but as a…
Walter Olson examines a recent federal court ruling that declared unlawful the Department of Homeland Security’s attempt to use funding leverage to get localities to adopt…
Hanoch Dagan and Seth Davis write that contract law theorists have mostly ignored intergovernmental contracts and that scholars have only begun to bring such…
Gayathri Venu looks ahead to the budget challenges -- including declining federal support -- that states are facing. Read more here.
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