Federalism, Policy Distance, and Institutional Design
Takaharu Ishii explores how the relationship between policy distance and institutional design affects how much a nation will devolve power. Read more here.
Takaharu Ishii explores how the relationship between policy distance and institutional design affects how much a nation will devolve power. Read more here.
Karlo Basta examines the "contentious federalism" and the "symbolic dimension" in four multinational states: Canada, Spain, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. Read more here.
In an op-ed, Trevor Tombe and Daniel Béland contend that Canada's new federal budget does little for the nation's fiscal federalism, writing that it…
A group of scholars have examined the ways that devolution has affected the delivery of health services and other wider determinants of health in…
Marc Sanjaume-Calvet has reviewed Comparative Federalism and Covid-19: Combating the Pandemic. Read more here.
In a blog post, Saumya Tewari explores the relationship between interstate migrant workers and federalism in India. Tewari writes that "the present nature of…
A group of scholars examine how two theories, partisan blame attribution and partisan federalism, explain patterns of blame attribution related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read…
Declaring that federalism in the province of Quebec is "dead," Konrad Yakabuski contends that "the days when the [Quebec Liberal Party] – under premiers…
The Environics Institute has released "Provincial Identity and and Autonomy," a survey-based report that "tracks the views of Canadians in all 13 provinces and…
Paul Tilley reviews Australian state and territory tax reform efforts. 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.
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.…
Lisa Claire Whitten has reviewed Michael Keating's book, State and Nation in the United Kingdom: The Fractured Union (password required). Read more here.
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