Sean Mueller explores the role that majoritarian democracy has played in the Catalan separatist movement. Read more here.
Brent Rathgeber contends that federalism in Canada might have "entered a new and awkward phase this past weekend" over the Trans Mountain Pipeline dispute. Read more…
Bruce Katz writes that federalism and "its close relation," localism, have made the United States resilient in ways that more centrally focused nations are…
Justice Goodwin Liu of the California Supreme Court has reviewed Jeffrey S. Sutton's recent book about judicial federalism, 51 Imperfect Solutions: The Making of American Constitutional Law, in the Yale…
Adam Harris Kurland explores the role of the federal government in prosecuting local police officers for civil rights violations. Read more here.
Writing that "nonjusticiable does not mean toothless," Carolyn Shapiro suggests that the Guarantee Clause requires Congress to address state level, antidemocratic tactics such as extreme…
Tiago de Melo Cartaxo examines the application of subsidiarity to environmental issues within the European Union to explore a possible path to green federalism…
Elizabeth Y. McCuskey writes that the Affordable Care Act's "big waiver" -- a waiver intended to allow states to pursue innovative healthcare solutions while…
Gil Seinfeld writes that although federalism is designed to secure the benefits arising from both centralization and devolution, scholarly commentary tends to focus on…
On April 25, the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs of Malaysia will host an event featuring a paper by Tricia Yeoh titled, "Reviving…
An article in the current edition of Frontline: India's National Magazine suggests that the federalization of India's party system and the rise of coalition politics make…
In response to the Trump administration's efforts to release detained immigrants in cities that oppose the administration's immigration policies, a number of sanctuary city…
In a Cato Institute blog post, Jeffrey A. Singer writes that Attorney General William Barr's position on marijuana legalization is more federalist than that…
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