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DOJ Releasing More Funds to Sanctuary Jurisdictions

The U.S. Department of Justice is releasing 2017 public safety funds to some so-called sanctuary cities that have refused to cooperate with the federal…

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Housing Increasingly a State, Rather than Local, Issue

In many states, local zoning rules are increasingly giving way to state-mandated housing policy as states struggle to find ways to encourage the development…

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Podcast: Federalism and Why States Sue the Federal Government

In this podcast, the staff of Democracy Works discusses federalism with Josh Shapiro, the attorney general of Pennsylvania. They discuss how federalism influences whether states choose to…

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Video: Fitting California’s Federalism Within a National Framework

Karthick Ramakrishnan of the University of California, Riverside, recently spoke about the national significance of California's progressive federalism. You can view a video of…

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Federalism in India and Nepal

Madhukar S.J.B. Rana and Atul K. Thakur consider India's experience with cooperative federalism, and what that might suggest about how Nepal's new federalist structure…

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Data Protection Via Federalism

Jonathan Mayer writes that data-protection efforts have long stalled at the federal level, which presents a "federalism twist" -- an opportunity for the states…

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Australian Federalism and Indigenous Nations

Michael Breen suggests that federalism offers a fresh way for the nation to constitutionally recognize indigenous peoples. Read more here.

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Fiscal Flows in India

Deepak Sethia writes that inter-regional fiscal flows have been widely studied in Europe and North America, but not in India. Sethia seeks to remedy…

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Exit Clauses in Federal Systems

Martijn Huysmans writes that, unlike the European Union, most federations lack exit clauses. He contends that in the case of the EU, an "exit-voice…

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Sub-National Government Variation in Russia

Cameron Ross and Petr Panov write that Russia's national government allows regional governments only a limited range of variation. They examine the variations that…

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Federalism and Brazil’s Health System

Rita de Cassia Gabrielli Souza Lima, Nadya Batista, and Denis William Gripa review scholarly literature from 2015 to 2017 relating to federalism and Brazil's…

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Washington State Braces for Net Neutrality Attack

Washington and California have both implemented net neutrality legislation, with California's being challenged by the U.S. Justice Department. Washington's net neutrality legislation has not…

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Court Rejects Administration’s Sanctuary Jurisdiction Policy

A California federal district court has, on Tenth Amendment anti-commandeering grounds, rejected the Trump administration's attempt to link federal funding to state and local…

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