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.
Asli U. Bali and Omar M. Dajani review the state of federalism and decentralization in the Middle East and North Africa. Read more here.
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.
M. P. Singh has written Federalism in India (New Delhi: SAGE Publications, 2022). The book offers a broad analysis of the Indian federal system with a global…
The political science department of the University of Delhi has invited paper abstracts for an upcoming conference on asymmetrical federalism. Read more here.
CSF Fellow John Kincaid, A.J. Brown, and Jacob Deem explore federal constitutional values among citizenry across six federal and two non-federal nations. Read more…
Achyut Wagle reviews the performance of Nepal's local governments since the nation's adoption of a new federal constitution in 2015. Read more here.
A group of scholars examine the social cost of fiscal federalism in China -- specifically, its effects on the nation's forests. Read more here.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has released a survey relating to recent trends in fiscal relations and subnational governments. Read more here.
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