The Federalism Library is an online multimedia collection of articles, books, and podcasts exploring contemporary and classic questions related to federalism. It includes material created by the Center for the Study of Federalism, as well as carefully curated information from prominent writers on federalism.
A bipartisan group of state attorneys general have sent a letter to congressional leaders calling for cooperative federal-state oversight of cannabis products. Read more…
James Farney and Julie M. Simmons have edited Open Federalism Revisited: Regional and Federal Dynamics in the Harper Era (Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2021).…
John Cruzatti C. examines how free trade agreements affected subnational regions in 207 nations from 1990 to 2015. Read more here.
CSF Fellows John Kincaid and J. Wesley Leckrone write that the most important feature of the U.S. response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been…
A group of authors explore India's asymmetric federalism, particularly in the case of the 2019 Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Act. Read more here.
A federal district court has blocked the implementation of the Centers for Disease Control's vaccine mandate for healthcare workers in facilities in ten states…
Bill Lucia reports the results of a survey indicating that 80 percent of responding mayors say that homelessness, transportation infrastructure, and social spending programs…
Joan Costa-Font and Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell examine how devolution in Spain has affected choice in public versus private healthcare. Read more here.
Emily Chertoff explores the outer limits of states' abilities to regulate noncitizens. 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…
Pending litigation in federal court has left 26 states in limbo regarding whether they will be required to follow the Occupational Safety and Health…
The "Build Back Better" bill that passed the U.S. House last Friday would, if it passes the Senate, include hundreds of billions of dollars…
Clay S. Jenkinson has interviewed Jeffrey Sutton, a federal judge and author of Who Decides: States as Laboratories of Constitutional Experimentation. Sutton contends that a…
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Federalism is American government’s best kept secret. Its influence is pervasive and profound. Though not mentioned in the Constitution, federalism’s meaning and application have been at the center of disputes from 1776 to the Civil War to our current culture wars. We are scholars who focus on federalism, and through this podcast, we explore how federalism, from practice to theory, shapes our politics, policies, culture, society, and daily life.
Federalism’s influence on American government, culture and society is pervasive and profound, yet often unexplored. This short podcast examines single, practical topics to show how federalism’s influence is real and relevant in average citizens’ daily lives.
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