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August 16, 2021

“Inefficient” Decentralization Examined

Joan-Ricart Huguet and Emily Sellars draw on cases in Africa and Latin America to explore the incentives that central authorities might have to bypass…

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August 16, 2021

Viable Governance in Canada and EU

John Erik Fossum studies the federal structures of Canada and the European Union, including whether the two are best described as polycephalous federations. Read more…

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August 13, 2021

Webinar on Catalonia’s Quest for Independence

Eurac Research will offer a webinar on October 7 titled, "Democratic Systems and Territorial Integration: The Effects and Consequences of Catalonia’s Quest for Independence."…

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August 12, 2021

Federalism and Counter-Majoritarian Democracy

Arash Abizadeh contends that the majoritarian conception of democracy is mistaken and that democratic equality requires counter-majoritarian institutions such as federalism. Read more here.

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American Federalism

August 12, 2021

Environmental Federalism in California and Brazil

A group of scholars compare the effects of environmental federalism on the environmental impact statements of two subnational units of two federalist nations. Read…

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August 10, 2021

Central Planning and Federalism in Nepal

In an op-ed, Achyut Wagle contends that Nepal's National Planning Commission is "an archaic relic of the centralized planning era of the Panchayat dictatorship"…

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August 9, 2021

Canadian Federalism and Interprovincial Infrastructure

Rory Gillis explores two questions related to interprovincial infrastructure: when should the federal government allow the provinces to decide whether interprovincial infrastructure proceeds, and how…

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August 9, 2021

Rousseau and Nigerian Federalism

Abdulyakeen Abdulrasheed and Jemilu Abdulsalam examine Nigeria's federalism-related challenges through the lens of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's writings. Read more here.

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August 6, 2021

Canadian Federalism After the Pandemic

Gregory P. Marchildon and Peter Bleyer write that the coronavirus pandemic has provided Canada an opportunity to "use federalism more intelligently" after the virus…

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August 2, 2021

Is Canadian Federalism Hindering the Nation’s Way Out of the Pandemic?

In an op-ed, Susan Cui warns that Canada's "trouble with federalism" has led to an uncoordinated response to the coronavirus pandemic across the provinces…

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July 23, 2021

Podcast on the State of Australian Federalism

In its "Democracy Sausage" podcast, the Asia and the Pacific Policy Society present, "Finger Pointing, Federalism, and Alternative Facts." You can listen here.

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July 23, 2021

Coronavirus and “Federalism, Chinese Style”

Philipp Renninger considers how well the central-local levels of Chinese government have responded to the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic. Read more here.

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July 22, 2021

Book on Canadian Policy Diffusion

Brendan Boyd and Andrew Olive have edited Provincial Policy Laboratories: Policy Diffusion and Transfer in Canada’s Federal System (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021). The book explores…

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