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Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers and Gender Equality in India

Writing that "fiscal federalism with asymmetry in revenue and expenditure assignments inevitably leads to vertical and horizontal imbalances in public service provisioning," several scholars…

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Trump and Cuomo Discuss SALT Tax

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…

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Police Federalism

Trevor George Gardner reviews the cultural and legal history of efforts to make state and local police subordinate to federal objectives. Gardner examines this…

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American Federalism

State Tax Limits On Local Tax Rates

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…

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Federalism and Legal Pluralism

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…

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Federalism and the Singapore Convention

Timothy Schnabel examines whether the Singapore Convention on Mediation, a private law treaty, will alter the balance between state and federal law enough that…

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American Federalism

Utah Limits Voter-Approved Medicaid Expansion

Utah's governor has signed legislation that curtails the Medicaid expansion recently approved by the state's voters. Read more here.

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Catalan Separatists Put on Trial

Spain has put twelve Catalan separatists on trial for illegally staging a 2017 independence referendum. Read more here.

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Conference on Federalism and Canadian Politics

The McGill Institute for the Study of Canada will be hosting its annual conference on March 21 and 22, 2019. The focus of the…

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Trudeau Blames Provincial Governments for Delays in Infrastructure Funding

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada recently pointed to interference by provincial governments as the cause of delay in the transfer of federal infrastructure…

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American Federalism

Preparation for Census Crucial to States’ Power

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…

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American Federalism

States Push for Federal Infrastructure Assistance

State and local leaders are pushing a variety of ways to Congress to help fund infrastructure improvements. Read more here and here.

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Review of Decentralization Indexes

Jean-Baptiste Paul Harguindéguy, Alistair Cole, and Romain Pasquier review and compare a number of decentralization indexes. Read more here.

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