New York governor Andrew Cuomo met with President Donald Trump this week to discuss the cap on the state-and-local tax deduction, which Cuomo asserts…
Trevor George Gardner reviews the cultural and legal history of efforts to make state and local police subordinate to federal objectives. Gardner examines this…
Ariel Jurow Kleiman explores how state-level property-tax limits on local tax rates affect the distribution of political power between local voters and policymakers. Kleiman…
Erin Ryan uses the federalism model of constitutional dual sovereignty to analyze the legal pluralism discourse that has emerged in the last few decades. Read…
Timothy Schnabel examines whether the Singapore Convention on Mediation, a private law treaty, will alter the balance between state and federal law enough that…
Utah's governor has signed legislation that curtails the Medicaid expansion recently approved by the state's voters. Read more here.
Spain has put twelve Catalan separatists on trial for illegally staging a 2017 independence referendum. Read more here.
The McGill Institute for the Study of Canada will be hosting its annual conference on March 21 and 22, 2019. The focus of the…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada recently pointed to interference by provincial governments as the cause of delay in the transfer of federal infrastructure…
The Pew Charitable Trusts reports that how well states prepare for the upcoming U.S. Census will have a significant effect on federal funding and…
State and local leaders are pushing a variety of ways to Congress to help fund infrastructure improvements. Read more here and here.
Jean-Baptiste Paul Harguindéguy, Alistair Cole, and Romain Pasquier review and compare a number of decentralization indexes. Read more here.
James Thuo Gathii and Harrison Mbori Otieno analyze Kenya's cooperative model of devolution. Specifically, the authors call for more study of how devolution has…
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