In an op-ed, Cielito F. Habito warns that if the nation shifts to a federal form of government, the economic gap between many regions…
Eugénie Brouillet, et al., have edited The Quebec Conference of 1864 (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018). The book's essays reflect the renewed historical interest in the…
Writing that "fiscal federalism with asymmetry in revenue and expenditure assignments inevitably leads to vertical and horizontal imbalances in public service provisioning," several scholars…
Erin Ryan uses the federalism model of constitutional dual sovereignty to analyze the legal pluralism discourse that has emerged in the last few decades. Read…
Timothy Schnabel examines whether the Singapore Convention on Mediation, a private law treaty, will alter the balance between state and federal law enough that…
Spain has put twelve Catalan separatists on trial for illegally staging a 2017 independence referendum. Read more here.
The McGill Institute for the Study of Canada will be hosting its annual conference on March 21 and 22, 2019. The focus of the…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada recently pointed to interference by provincial governments as the cause of delay in the transfer of federal infrastructure…
Jean-Baptiste Paul Harguindéguy, Alistair Cole, and Romain Pasquier review and compare a number of decentralization indexes. Read more here.
James Thuo Gathii and Harrison Mbori Otieno analyze Kenya's cooperative model of devolution. Specifically, the authors call for more study of how devolution has…
Addressing a protest assembly, Nepali Congress member Gagan Kumar Thapa expressed frustration with the nation's transition to federalism, arguing that "the activities of the…
In an op-ed, Pradip Phanjoubam writes that the time has come for India to move beyond its strong unitary structure to one of true…
CSF Fellow John Kincaid and Jack Jedwab have edited Identities, Trust, and Cohesion in Federal Systems (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019). Part of the…
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