Gun-Rights Sanctuary Jurisdictions
Ilya Somin describes how gun-rights advocates have begun to create "sanctuary jurisdictions" similar to pro-immigrant sanctuary jurisdictions that appeared during the years of the…
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.
Ilya Somin describes how gun-rights advocates have begun to create "sanctuary jurisdictions" similar to pro-immigrant sanctuary jurisdictions that appeared during the years of the…
The Environmental Protection Agency has issued a Notice of Intention to revise a 2020 Trump administration change to the water quality certification rule of…
Erin A. Scharff, Enid Slack, and Tomas Hachard describe how the coronavirus pandemic has negatively affected localities' budgets and argue that -- in both the United…
Jeffrey Clemens, Benedic N. Ippolito, and Stan Veuger have authored a National Bureau of Economic Research paper examining Medicaid and fiscal federalism during the…
Jörg Broschek examines how sub-federal units in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have become increasingly active in trade politics. Read more here.
Omar Makimov Pallotta has reviewed a 2020 reissuance of Piero Calamandrei's book, Questa Nostra Europa. Read more here.
Kenneth W. Kizer writes that the way the federal government, states, and localities responded to the coronavirus pandemic "provides a unique opportunity to examine federalism…
Keith Best of the World Federalist Movement/Institute for Global Policy considers how the organization can best continue to carry out its efforts to bring…
Gordon S. Wood reviews Alan Taylor’s latest book, American Republics, in Taylor’s series on the colonies and states in early American history (password required). Read…
In an op-ed, Mong Palatino writes that President Rodrigo Duterte's federalism plan is "dead" and that "federalism can be included in the list of…
Johannes Reich suggests that the Swiss federalism experience offers insights into federalism and mitigating climate change. Read more here.
Jessie M. Cross and Shelley Welton argue that the Affordable Care Act offers lessons in federalism that could be applied to the New Green…
Writing that "virus has . . . exposed the hollowness of the slogan 'cooperative federalism,'" Rajrishi Singhal contends that the coronavirus pandemic has highlighted a number of challenging…
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