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.
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Andrew Jones reports that the Trump administration has linked federal funding for states to whether the states end or loosen state laws intended to curb monopolies…
Josh Wright contends that the federal government, not states, should guide the nation's antitrust reviews. Otherwise, he argues, under the federalism idea that a particular…
Arthur Benz has written Understanding Federal Democracy (Cheltenham, Gloucestershire: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026). Benz examines the relationship between federalism and democracy from a theoretical and…
Shashi Tharoor contends that India should revive its Inter-State Council. Tharoor writes that "the result of the Inter-State Council’s atrophy is the erosion of…
Naomi Schalit interviews several legal experts to discuss the authority that states have when the federal government -- in this case, the Trump administration's…
A blog post by the Robert Lansing Institute considers the effect that recent electoral successes in Germany by a far-right party could have for…
Mollie Mills and Aleena Oberthur report that federal reductions in water-infrastructure funding will place additional fiscal burdens on states and localities. Read more here.
The University of Utah has posted an interview with Michael Dichio, who recently co-authored an article in Publius titled, "The State of American Federalism…
Elvis Williams Mbwoge examines the 2019 Special Status that was conferred on two regions of Cameroon in the wake of the Anglophone Crisis, which erupted…
India revoked the autonomous status of Jammu and Kashmir in 2019. This action was affirmed by the nation's highest court in 2023. Umair Afzal…
Spain's Supreme Court has ruled that the former president of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, can return to Spain nearly ten years after going into self-imposed…
Ilya Somin offers an update on the secession movements in Alberta and Quebec. Read more here.
In an interview, Steve Johnson of the State Policy Network's Center for Practical Federalism discusses that group's "Federalism Scorecard," including why a state's stronger…
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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.
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