Charles Breton looks ahead at possible areas of conflict between the national government and the provinces. Read more here.
Harry Hobbs and George Williams analyze how and why Australian states and territories have begun the process of treaty-making with indigenous peoples. Read more…
Ignacio Lago has edited Handbook on Decentralization, Devolution, and the State (Northampton, Massachusetts: Edward Elgar, 2021). The book's contributors examine how decentralization varies across countries and…
Anton Afanasev investigates how Russian regions, between 2013 and 2018, adjusted fiscal and electoral policies to receive larger shares of intergovernmental transfers. Read more here.
Donald F. Kettl contends that states and localities might help the nation stop "backsliding" away from democracy. Read more here.
Asli U. Bali and Omar M. Dajani review the state of federalism and decentralization in the Middle East and North Africa. Read more here.
Bill Lucia reports that a number of municipal financial officers from major cities have indicated that the fiscal outlook for their governments has improved…
Georgina Yeomans contends that Article III of the Constitution provides the U.S. Supreme Court a way to prevent states from enacting the sort of…
Jacob Bronsther and Guha Krishnamurthi suggest that the partisanship that now dominates national politics could be eased by allowing the states to simply opt…
Dennis Penu writes that since its independence in 1957, Ghana has steadily moved away from its federalist constitution to an "entrenched" unitary structure. Read…
In a paper based on his Ph.D. dissertation, Vishnu Tandon reviews Nepal's "complicated path" to federalism. Read more here.
Jake Blumgart reports that some smaller, less affluent localities could miss out on competitive federal infrastructure funding because they often lack the resources to…
Tate Volbrecht reviews issues with the federal government's administrative data collection efforts and contends that "fractured data bureaucracies are a natural consequence of the…
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