Ian Holloway contends that "Wexit" presents the people of Alberta an opportunity to revitalize federalism: "What Alberta could do — and in so doing, make…
The Center for Policy Research, a public policy think tank, hosted a presentation and question-and-answer session with Louise Tillen, the author of Indian Federalism. You…
Yonatan Fessha considers the challenges posed by the recent referendum allowing the Sidama of Ethiopia the right to create their own state. Read more…
Anthony M. Bertelli, et al., explore the incentives that the British government might have to centralize or devolve authority after Brexit. Read more here.
In an op-ed, James Allen criticizes Treasury Secretary Josh Frydenberg's praise for the powers of the national government, suggesting that Frydenberg should "go back…
Geoffrey Hale writes that since the 1980s, Canada has employed a "soft, asymmetrical federalism" in which the national government negotiates terms of cooperation with the…
Marcelo Castro and Tiago Cisalpino examine whether the economic dependence of small towns on federal grants leads to electoral support. Read more here.
Carmen Belén Guillén Pérez explores the complex relationship between the central government and the Spanish Autonomous Communities. Read more here.
Sean Speer suggests that Canada should emulate the Opportunity Zone program created by the 2017 U.S. tax law. Speer contends that the zones would…
Dale Eisler and Johnson Shoyama write that the sense of western alienation evidenced in the recent election should not be a surprise. Read more here.
James Dunne offers a look back at when, he suggests, Britain was at the forefront of the European federalism movement. Read more here.
In a blog post, Erin F. Delaney discusses her research into how judicial systems construct and police the boundaries of federalism and how federalism, in…
Hans Beck, et al., have edited Ethnos and Koinon: Studies in Ancient Greek Ethnicity and Federalism (Stuttgart: Steiner Franz Verlag, 2019). The essays in this volume explore the often…
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