State AGs Challenge Federal Environmental Rollbacks
Pamela King and Jeremy P. Jacobs write that state attorneys general have successfully challenged a number of the Trump administration's attempted rollbacks of environmental…
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.
Pamela King and Jeremy P. Jacobs write that state attorneys general have successfully challenged a number of the Trump administration's attempted rollbacks of environmental…
Nitish Pahwa writes that India's responses to the coronavirus outbreak have varied widely by state. Read more here.
European Union leaders have proposed a pandemic recovery plan that would give the organization taxation and spending powers similar to those held by a…
The Peter MacKell Chair in Federalism at McGill University has created a compendium of resources related to federalism and the coronavirus. Read more here.
Rory Scothorne reviews two books that explore the rise of the Scottish independence movement: The Great Mistake of Scottish Independence, by John Lloyd and The Literary…
Dave Owen and Hannah Jacobs Wiseman examine coequal federalism -- that is, when federal- and state-appointed officials work together within a single agency that can…
Shui Yan Tang and Brian An compare the intergovernmental responses of the United States and China to the coronavirus pandemic. Read more here.
Johannes Saurer reports on the cooperative administrative federalism at work in Germany's response to the coronavirus pandemic. Read more here.
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have released a proposal that would offer states and localities almost $1 trillion in funding to help…
Teresa Scassa explores whether the nation's federal structure inhibits efforts to establish contacts of people infected by the coronavirus. Read more here.
The United States Department of Agriculture has filed notice of its intent to appeal a federal district court's injunction preventing the USDA from implementing…
Writing that the coronavirus outbreak "has underscored both the promise and limits of the Tenth Amendment," Nancy J. Knauer examines the federalism-related aspects of…
CSF Fellow John Kincaid traces the responses of the federal government and the states to the coronavirus pandemic and contends that the responses mark…
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