Devolution and Public Versus Private Healthcare
Joan Costa-Font and Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell examine how devolution in Spain has affected choice in public versus private healthcare. Read more here.
Joan Costa-Font and Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell examine how devolution in Spain has affected choice in public versus private healthcare. Read more here.
A group of scholars have edited The Principle of Equality in Diverse States: Reconciling Autonomy with Equal Rights and Opportunities (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2021). The book looks…
Michael Pal examines the constitutional politics of electoral governance in federations by focusing on the role of election commissions in Asian nations. Read more…
David R. Cameron has written The Daily Plebiscite: Federalism, Nationalism, and Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021). The book collects Cameron's writings on a…
The Fraser Institute has published a report contending that decentralized federalism is a key to improved Canadian healthcare. Read more here.
In a podcast episode hosted by the Champlain Society, Greg Marchildon interviews Professor Jim Farney about former Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s shift from collaborative federalism to…
Endre Orbán explores agency relationships between the European Union and the member states. Read more here.
A group of scholars have edited Federalism and the Response to COVID-19: A Comparative Analysis (New Delhi: Routledge, 2022). The book's chapters compare how federal governments around…
Werner Reutter compares the functions of German and American subnational courts and contends that federalism is "not only an overall structure that shapes the…
Ben Eisen and Joel Emes examine why, despite a shrinking gap between the fiscal capacity of the various provinces, aggregate equalization payments continue to…
Abdinor Dahir and Ali Yassin Sheikh Ali analyze the implementation of federalism in Somalia since 2012. The authors consider a number of challenges Somalia…
Niranjan Sahoo and Ambar Kumar Ghosh of the East Asia Forum contend that the coronavirus pandemic has exposed weaknesses in India's federal structure. Read…
Raymond B. Blake and John Donaldson Whyte write that the 1981 constitutional accord weakened federalism and has "produced resentments and weaknesses in national relations…
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