OSHA and “Hybrid Federalism”
Paul M. Secunda suggests that, in regard to workplace safety regulations, a combination of federal general-duty enforcement and individual state enforcement provides the best…
Paul M. Secunda suggests that, in regard to workplace safety regulations, a combination of federal general-duty enforcement and individual state enforcement provides the best…
The Nepali Congress, the leading opposition party in the Federal Parliament, has increasingly spoken out against a number of bills filed by the national…
Twenty states are suing the Trump Administration over its new policy of forbidding taxpayer-funded health clinics from referring patients to abortion providers. Read more here.
The Trump administration has continued to attempt to impose grant conditions on states and localities that were not authorized by Congress. Ilya Somin explains…
Jagdishor Panday reports that a number of bills that are crucial to the process of strengthening federalism in the nation are stalled in the…
Saying that Iraq should respect its own constitution, which is based on federalism, the prime minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Nechirvan Barzani, has…
Ganesh Prasad Chalise, Arun GC, and Kiran Ghimire of Nepal's Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development examine the relationship between federalism and rural development. Read…
T.M. Thomas Isaac, R. Mohan, and Lekha Chakraborty analyze fiscal federalism in India by examining trends in vertical fiscal imbalances between the national government and…
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit to stop Philadelphia from implementing a safe drug-injection site on grounds that the site violates…
Niels Philipsen writes that the economics of federalism helps shed light on both why many voters in the United Kingdom voted for Brexit and…
About 50 local governments in New Jersey have banned recreational marijuana use. The bans have been put in place as the state is expected…
Mattie Quinn reports that legislation included in the federal government's 2018 spending bill could "completely upend the way child welfare operates at the state…
D.B.S. Jeyaraj reviews efforts to move the nation to a federal form of government and bemoans the "false binary between unitary and federal" in…
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