Muhammad Ali Siddiqi reviews the revised and enlarged second edition of Mehrunnisa Ali's Politics of Federalism in Pakistan. Read more here.
A number of states have passed right of first refusal (ROFR) laws for in-state utility companies that own electric transmission lines, something that critics…
Jan Erk has reviewed Teaching Federalism: Multidimensional Approaches, by CSF fellows John Kincaid and J. Wesley Leckrone. Read more here.
Rosa Hayes suggests that the equal sovereignty doctrine developed by the U.S. Supreme Court in Shelby County v. Holder can be used to achieve progressive, rather…
Sean Lyness discusses public trust lawsuits brought by states and localities and, among other issues, why they often focus on disputes about whether they…
Nicole Etcheson contends that federalism "defeated" Reconstruction's constitutional revolution. Read more here.
Mistir Sew writes that Ethiopia's regional governments need greater fiscal autonomy for the nation's system of federalism to thrive. Read more here.
In an interview, Karla Jones of the American Legislative Exchange Council discusses federalism and the organization's new video series on Article V of the…
André Freire and Teresa Ruel examine two-way spillovers in national and regional politics in two regions of Portugal. Read more here.
Noah M. Kazis compares the federal government's approach to housing assistance with the "lockstep," uniform approach that states and localities take -- regardless of…
Anthony M. Ciolli reviews the effects of the so-called Insular Cases -- U.S. Supreme Court cases that rejected the idea that Americans in U.S.…
A group of writers compare the effectiveness of gender-based violence prevention policies in a nation with a decentralized structure (Australia) and a nation with a more centralized structure…
In a blog post, Heather Trela of the Rockefeller Institute for Government explores the increasingly significant role that American courts -- in how they deal with…
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