New Report on Americans’ Attitudes Toward the Federal Government
The American Enterprise Institute has released a report based on polling titled, "Attitudes About the Federal Government." Read more here.
The American Enterprise Institute has released a report based on polling titled, "Attitudes About the Federal Government." Read more here.
A group of researchers have analyzed how a shift to renewable energy could have varying effects among India's states. Read more here.
Bill Lucia reports that the Biden administration recently released a guidebook to help rural communities access federal infrastructure funds. Read more here.
A group of scholars have compared the varying environmental policies of the German states in the years following the nation's federalism reform of 2006.…
A group of scholars contend that the U.S. Supreme Court could soon "reconsider constitutional principles from bygone eras" in a way that could threaten the nation's…
Lisa Claire Whitten has reviewed Michael Keating's book, State and Nation in the United Kingdom: The Fractured Union (password required). Read more here.
Prakash Chandra Jha explores how cooperative federalism in India has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more here.
Jeffrey A. Cooper examines why the Internal Revenue Service's deduction for state estate taxes seems to have little effect on state tax policy. Read…
A number of states could receive significantly less funding from the Environmental Protection Agency for lead pipe removal because, some state officials contend, the EPA…
Marc Spindelman argues that the focus of the abortion debate will not, as some observers have contended, shift away from the U.S. Supreme Court…
Richard Briffault explores the increase in state-local preemption, writing that "the challenge posed by preemption to the structure of our state-local relationship continues to…
Robert J. Miller writes that state and lower federal courts have interfered with tribal sovereign decisions and sovereign immunity. Miller contends that Indian nations, the U.S.…
Jacob Sullum criticizes the Democratic Party for alienating Republicans who would otherwise support cannabis reform because "GOP support for marijuana federalism is clear." Read more…
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