CSF fellow J. Wesley Leckrone has co-edited Pennsylvania Politics and Policy: A Commonwealth Reader, Volume 2 (Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 2019). The book explores governmental institutions and a variety…
Writing that "Trudeau federalism continues to be a mystery," Katelyn Duncan contends that determining who has the final say on any environmental policy is…
Michael Henry Yusingco writes that the increasing complexity of government has led to overlapping responsibilities among levels of government. He provides a theoretical discussion…
Ilya Somin has reviewed Michael Dichio's new book, The U.S. Supreme Court and the Centralization of Federal Authority (password required). He offers additional commentary…
Mike Nichols argues that grants-in-aid from the federal government to state and local governments result in unwanted intrusions by the federal government into local…
The Center for Development and Ethnic Studies, with the support of the Joint Peace Fund, has launched a federalism awareness and educational campaign in…
Arguing that "the federal form of union is well established and available for the world," Joseph P. Baratta asserts that, contrary to the Realist foreign…
The Environmental Protection Agency has called for public comments on a proposed rule change to 40 Code of Federal Regulations Part 121. The proposed rule would curtail…
Philip Klein contends that slavery made it impossible to limit the size and scope of the federal government. Read more here.
Dilip D'Souza compares the status of Kashmir to that of Quebec, the special concessions to eastern Germany after reunification, and the United States during…
Writing that "variety is a strengthener of liberty," William Murchison applauds the variety of policy choices available in a federal plan of government. Read…
The National Conference of State Legislatures has released its latest issue of Capitol to Capitol, a newsletter covering a number of federalism-related issues. Read more here.
Tensions stemming from a regional election in the state of Jubaland have led to concerns that the national government is attempting to, in the words…
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