Publius-The Journal of Federalism

Papers
(The median citation count of Publius-The Journal of Federalism is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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Fiscal Federalism in Canada, edited by Andre Lecours, Daniel Béland, Trevor Tombe, and Eric Champagne31
Indigenous Peoples and the Future of Federalism, edited by Amy Swiften and Joshua Nichols19
Reviewers for Volume 5519
Regulatory Mismatches in the United States and the European Union18
Explaining Subnational Variations in India’s Pandemic Response: State Capacity, Covid-Contingency, or Partisan Federalism?15
Federalism and the National Defense Case for National Education14
Constraining the Court: Judicial Power and Policy Implementation in the Charter Era , by James B. Kelly12
Local Fiscal Response to State Preemption: A Case Study of Massachusetts’ Proposition 2½ Tax Referendum12
Legislative Underrepresentation and Executive Dominance: Why Powerful States Accept Legislative Malapportionment11
Mind the Gap between the Governor and the People: The Common Agency Problem in Russian Authoritarian Federalism11
From Flexibility to Forced Alignment: The One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s Reshaping of Medicaid Federalism10
The Promise of Text, Audio, and Video Data for the Study of US Local Politics and Federalism10
Still a Hollow Hope: State Power and the Second Amendment, by Anthony D. Cooling9
Navigating Conflicting Incentives: Discursive Strategies of Political Parties in Germany’s Cooperative Federalism8
Precolonial Legacies in Postcolonial Politics: Representation and Redistribution in Decentralized States, by Martha Wilfahrt8
In Her Own Name: The Politics of Women’s Rights Before Suffrage, by Sara Chatfield8
The Jailer’s Reckoning: How Mass Incarceration is Damaging America . Kevin B. Smith8
The (re)making of local boundaries in African and European federal systems: Arguments and intergovernmental dynamics7
Paradiplomacy in Hard Times: Cooperation and Confrontation in Subnational U.S.–China Relations7
An Education in Devolution? Lessons in Federalism from the Elimination of the US Department of Education6
From Expediency to Entrenchment: Territorial Finance in the UK and the Role of Crises in the Origins and Evolution of the Barnett Formula6
Inequality Across State Lines: How Policymakers Have Failed Domestic Violence Victims in the United States, by Kaitlin N. Sidorsky and Wendy J. Schiller6
Control vs. Electoral Performance: Why Personalist Rulers Choose Local Governors5
Jobs, Justice, and Federalism: The Durability of the Biden Administration’s Energy and Climate Agenda under the Trump Administration5
Putting Federalism in Its Place: The Territorial Politics of Social Policy Revisited, by Scott L. Greer, Daniel Béland, André Lecours, and Kenneth A. Dubin5
Fiscal Federalism, ARPA, and the Politics of Repair5
Integration through Expansive Unification: The Birth of the European Health Union4
What is Federalism? Some Definitional Clarification4
Federal Judges, States Legislators, and State Voting Rights Rollback4
A Note from the Editors4
The Role of Federalism and the Centrality of State Governments for Labor Unions, Employment, and Organizing4
A Written Constitution for Quebec? edited by Léonid Sirota and Richard Albert4
Correction to: Paradiplomacy in Hard Times: Cooperation and Confrontation in Subnational U.S.–China Relations4
Federalism, Intergovernmental Conflict, and the COVID-19 Crises in Latin America4
Measuring and Explainingde factoRegional Policy Autonomy Variation in a Constitutionally Symmetrical Federation: The Case of Ethiopia, 1995–20203
The Adaptable Country: How Canada Can Survive the Twenty-First Century, Alasdair Roberts3
The Frontiers of Nullification and Anticommandeering: Federalism and Extrajudicial Constitutional Interpretation3
What Determines the Responses of Multi-Level States to Crises? A Set-Theoretical Analysis of Evidence from the Covid-19 Pandemic3
Experimentalist Constitutions: Subnational Policy Innovations in China, India, and the United States by Yueduan Wang3
State Pride and the Quality of Democracy in the American States3
The Dead Hand’s Grip: How Long Constitutions Bind States, by Adam R. Brown3
Sorting It Out in the American States: Party Ideology and Mass Alignment2
The Meaning of Regionalization: Why Federalism Is a Problem for Belgian Dutch-Speakers in Times of Democratic Malaise2
Crisis Management Extremes in Multi-Level Systems: Bosnia and Herzegovina2
A Research Agenda for Regional and Local Government, Edited by Mark Callanan and John Loughlin2
The State of American Federalism 2022–2023: Escalating Culture Wars in the States2
Federalism by Extortion2
Introduction: The Comparative Federalism of Single Markets in Europe and the United States2
Federalism and Polarization: How Can Research Be More Relevant?2
Money Is Not Enough: The Temporary Impact of Pandemic-Era Aid on American Fiscal Federalism2
Democratic Federalism: The Economics, Politics, and Law of Federal Governance, by Robert P. Inman and Daniel L. Rubinfeld2
Progressive States’ Rights: The Forgotten History of Federalism, by Sean Beienburg2
A Regional System under Tight-Knit Elite Rule: The Last Attempt to Introduce Decentralization in Early Italy2
The Determinants of Taxation Innovation Policy in Spain’s Common Regime Autonomous Communities (1986–2018)2
Why Federalism Needs Shared Rule: A Commentary on the Symposium2
The Emergence of the Second Amendment Sanctuary Movement: Partisan Federalism, Not White Protectionism2
Past Political Asymmetry and Present Public Opinion: How Has the Asymmetrical Federation of the EU Shaped Popular Opinion of Its Optimal Shape?2
Dividing Authority Three Ways: Federal–Tribal–State Relations afterOklahoma v. Castro-Huerta2
Boom and bust in Puerto Rico: how politics destroyed an economic miracle . A. W. Maldonado2
Financial Oversight Boards in the U.S. Federal System: Insights from the Puerto Rican Debt Crisis2
Why States Preempt City Ordinances: The Case of Workers’ Rights Laws2
Following in Footsteps or Marching Alone? How Institutional Differences Influence Renewable Energy Policy, by Srinivas C. Parinandi2
Optimality Versus Politics: The Tragedy of the Commons and Mitigating Institutions in COVID-19 Policies2
Federal Responses to Three Twenty-First Century Crises: More Continuity than Centralization in American Federalism2
Crisis Governance in Multi-Level Polities: What Works, When, and Why1
Pathways of Subnational Undemocratic Regime Erosion: Varieties of Federalism in the Americas1
Nation’s Metropolis: the Economy, Politics, and Development of the Washington Region . Royce Hanson and Harold Wolman1
Governors and Federalism: Examining Tensions in Modi’s India1
The Gateway Drug: Cannabis Legalization in the American States1
Bringing Capacity Back In: Paradiplomacy and Sub-State Government Internationalization in the Global Economy1
Security, Cooperation, Governance: The Canada–United States Open Border Paradox, edited by Christian Leuprecht and Todd Hataley1
American paradiplomacy and Chinese power: demystifying US–China subnational relations . Czeslaw Tubilewicz1
A Reply to Fenna and Schnabel’s (2024) “What is Federalism?”1
Lights Out: Political and Economic Determinants of Electricity Shutoffs in the United States1
Personality and Preferences for Territorial Scales1
Sleeping Dogs: Quebec and the Stabilization of Canadian Federalism after 1995, Andrew McDougall1
Monitoring American Federalism: The History of State Legislative Resistance, by Christian G. Fritz1
American Services in European Perspective: Why Do Americans Not Care about Interstate Barriers in Construction?1
The State of American Federalism 2023–2024: Judicialization of Gridlocked Politics1
Does Home Rule Still Matter? Perceptions and Legal Constraints in Green Public Procurement1
Correction to: The Frontiers of Nullification and Anticommandeering: Federalism and Extrajudicial Constitutional Interpretation1
Rethinking multilevel governance . Arthur Benz1
Advancing Co-creation in Local Governance: The Role of Coping Strategies and Constructive Hybridization. Edited by Asbjorn Roiseland, Eva Sorensen, and Jacob Torfing1
Reviewers for Volume 531
Voluntary Interdependence in Federal Systems: Explaining Deautonomization through Coordinating Conferences in Austria1
Does Decentralization Affect the Size of Public Intervention? Evidence from Anti-Covid Public Policies1
States of health: the ethics and consequences of policy variation in a federal system . Leslie P. Francis and John G. Francis1
The Secret Guam Study . Howard P. Willens with Dirk A. Ballendorf Second ed1
Where FDI Goes in Decentralized Authoritarian Countries: The Politics of Taiwanese Site Selection in Mainland China, by Kelan Lu1
American Federalism and Health Policy Spillovers: Insights from the Opioid Crisis1
Clean Water Policy and State Choice: Promise and Performance in the Water Quality Act, by John C. Morris1
Defiant Innovation: A Framework for Understanding Policy Divergence?1
A Note from the Editors1
The past, present, and future of Canadian cities: where the law went wrong and how we can fix it . Edited by Alexandra Flynn, 1
The Epistemic Case for Federalism: A Framework and Critical Analysis1
Advanced Introduction to Federalism by Alain-G. Gagnon and Arjun Tremblay1
Seeing Red and Blue: Assessing How Americans Understand Geographic Polarization, Secession, and the Value of Federalism1
Treaty Federalism, Legislative Reconciliation, and Informal Constitutional Change in Canada1
Who Benefits From Federalism Claims in Federal Court?1
The Politics of Territorial Resistance to Federal Authority: Distinctiveness, Partisanship, and Outbidding in Texas and Alberta1
Federalism and Decentralization in the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa, Edited by Aslı Ü. Bâli and Omar M. Dajani1
Settler Federalism and the Conditions of Indigenous Autonomy: A Comparative Study1
Constitutional Crises and Regionalism by Vito Breda1
In Memoriam: Stephen L. Schechter1
Exploring the Relationship between Federal Reform and the Representation of the People: The Case of the Belgian House of Representatives1
Between Decentralization and Asymmetry: Explaining Preferences toward the Division of Power in Canada1
Tax Compliance in a Decentralized System: The Impact of Trust and Enforcement1
Shared Rule and Social Empathy: Is Caring Federalism Possible?1
A Practice-Based Understanding of Shared Rule1
The Constitutional Foundations of White Supremacy: Evidence from the States1
Do Local Gender Quotas in Multilevel Democracies Improve the Electability of Women at Higher Tiers? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in North India0
Burden-Shifting, Encroaching, and Shirking: Federalism in a Pandemic Crisis0
Correction to: Book Review: Fiscal Unions: Economic Integration in Europe and the United States, by Tomasz Wozniakowski0
Policy Trenches: American Federalism and the Politics of Cross-Sectoral Action on Housing and Education Inequality0
Foedus and the Contestability of Borders: The Federalist Response to the Boundary Problem in Democratic Theory0
Paul Pierson and Eric Schickler, Partisan Nation: The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era0
Shared Rule in the Scholarship on Federalism and Diversity: What Does It Look Like, and Does It Matter?0
Carrots and Sticks of Authoritarian Federalism: Fiscal Incentives of Elected and Appointed Governors in Russia0
In Memoriam: Donald S. Lutz (1943–2024)0
The Timing of Implementation of COVID-19 Lockdown Policies: Does Decentralization Matter?0
The Efficiency-Equity Trade-off in a Federal System: Local Financing of Schools and Student Achievement0
Artificial Intelligence’s Future Is in the States, if the Federal Government Allows0
Armed Federalism, Gun Markets, and the Right to Bear Arms in the United States0
Cities in Federal Constitutional Theory, Edited by Erika Arban.0
Fifty Paths to Bureaucracy: The Endogenous Development of Pensions and Civil-Service Systems in the US Federal System0
The dispersion of power: a realist theory of democracy . Samuel E. Bagg0
West Virginia v. EPA: Major Questions for the Future of the Administrative State and American Federalism0
Reviewers for Volume 520
Addressing the Challenges of Rural Local Governments: Perceptions of State Assistance0
Considering the Necessity of Shared Rule: A Symposium on an Essential Element of Federalism in Theory and Practice0
Leave It to the States? Effects of Federal Environmental Policy Retrenchment0
The Power of the Badge: Sheriffs and Inequality in the United States, by Emily Farris and Mirya Holman0
Decentralizing happiness0
Managing Federalism through Pandemic, by Kathy L. Brock and Geoffrey Hale0
Climate Federalism at a Crossroads: From Compensatory to Coercive and Mitigation to Adaptation0
Teaching the Region: How Decentralized Education Shapes Territorial Identity in Spain0
Local Government, Shared Rule, and Problem-Solving in Federal Systems0
What Explains German Länder Governments’ Stances Towards Federalism?0
National Influences on Election Outcomes for State Executive Offices0
Reviewers for Volume 540
National Parties and State Power: Federalism’s New Logic in an Era of Executive-Centered Partisanship0
Federalism, Decentral Governance, and Joint Decision-Making: Bad News for the Implementation of International Environmental Agreements?0
Territorial Conflict in the Spotlight: Unveiling Paths to Territorial Clarity0
Unlimited Power: Energy Policy, State Politics, and Multistate Litigation Against the Federal Government0
Accountability in State Legislatures, by Steven Rogers0
Assessing the Implementation of ARPA Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds: The View from City Officials0
Splitsville USA: A Democratic Argument for Breaking up the United States, by Christopher F. Zurn0
Intergovernmental Relations: State and Local Challenges in the Twenty-First Century, by Jonathan M. Fisk0
The First- and Second-Nature Geographic Correlates of Federal Budget Transfers and Fiscal Dependence—Evidence from Russia and the United States0
Health Expenditure Decentralization and Health Outcomes: The Importance of Governance0
Fiscal Decentralization and Health Care Access and Quality: Evidence from Local Governments around the World0
The Persistence of Local Caudillos in Latin America, by Tomáš Došek0
Public Support for State Secession in the United States0
The Disunited States: Threats of Secession in Red and Blue America and Why They Won’t Work Ryan D. Griffiths0
The State of American Federalism 2025–2026: Federalism’s Dual Role in Democratic Backsliding0
Intergovernmental Relations in the UK: Cooperation and Conflict in a Devolved Unitary State, by Marius Guderjan0
Rethinking Federalism Studies, by Carol S. Weissert0
Co-Determination: A Central Feature of Multinational Federalism0
What’s the Matter with Delaware? How the First State Has Favored the Rich, Powerful, and Criminal—and How It Costs Us All, by Hal Weitzman0
Federalism and Social Policy Expansion in Canada during the Justin Trudeau Era0
Democratic Backsliding in the American States: The Case of Judicial Independence0
Federal Spirits: Single Markets in Goods in the United States and the European Union and the Case of Spirits Drinks0
Catalonia: The Struggle Over Independence , 2nd ed. by Kenneth McRoberts0
Explaining State Allocation Shares Under the Water Quality Act of 1987: Politics, Incrementalism, or Need?0
Editors’ Introduction to Book Review Symposium on Green Rush: The Rise of Medical Marijuana in the American States by Daniel J. Mallinson and A. Lee Hannah0
The Federal Contract: A Constitutional Theory of Federalism, by Stephen Tierney0
The Future of Police Reform: The U.S. Justice Department and the Promise of Lawful Policing . Samuel Walker0
We Are Not One People: Secession and Separatism in American Politics since 1776, by Michael J. Lee and R. Jarrod Atchison0
Ideology and Support for Federalism in Theory—And in Practice0
Divided We Survive? Multilevel Governance during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy and Spain0
Rethinking Decentralization: Mapping the Meaning of Subsidiarity in Federal Political Culture, by Jacob Deem0
Teaching Federalism: Multidimensional Approaches, by John Kincaid and J. Wesley Leckrone0
The Consequences of Direct Democracy for the Balance of Power between State and Local Governments in the United States0
Small Isn’t Beautiful: The Case against Localism, by Trevor Latimer0
Federalism and Confidence in Australian Governments During the COVID-19 Pandemic0
Defiant Innovation and Federalism: How Interest Groups Help Shape the Relationship between Federal and State Government0
Delivering on Environmental Justice? U.S. State Implementation of the Justice40 Initiative0
Explaining Subnational Constitutional Choices: Separation of Powers in the American States0
Nation-Building and Federalism in Nepal, by Krishna Hachhethu0
Tools of Subnational Democratic Subversion: A Taxonomy and Research Agenda0
Rethinking the Supreme Court’s Impact on American Federalism and Centralization0
The Indebtedness of the Spanish Regions in the Context of Fiscal Consolidation0
Introduction: The Future of Federalism in the United States0
On the Fiscal Sustainability of Swiss Cantons, 1905–20170
Measuring Policy Diffusion in Federal Systems: The Case of Legalizing Cannabis in Canada under Time Constraints0
Loyalty in Federal Systems: Notes toward a Theory of Autonomy and Cohesion0
Reply to Reviewers0
“That Desirable Uniformity”: The National Guard and Problems of Federalism0
State Identities and Civic and Political Engagement in the United States0
Another Side of Waiver Federalism: Lessons from Federal Youth Workforce Policy0
Economic and Social Crisis Responses in Multi-Level Systems: Does Intergovernmental Coordination Matter?0
State Attorneys General and their Challenges to Federal Policies: Insights from the Texas v. California Litigation Regarding the Affordable Care Act0
The Hidden Face of Local Power: Appointed Boards and the Limits of Democracy. Mirya R. Holman0
Variation All the Way Down: Charting the Subnational Trajectories of School Choice Policy across and within Multicultural Democracies0
Out of Many, One? Exploring Ethnolinguistic Identity Appeals in the Brussels Capital Region0
The oldest constitutional question: enumeration and federal power . Richard Primus0
Municipalities at Court0
Educational Accountability and American Federalism: Moving beyond a Test-Based Approach, by John Portz0
Defining Federalism: A Rejoinder to Hueglin and Mueller0
Multiple Barriers: The Multilevel Governance of Homelessness in Canada, by Alison Smith0
State Incarceration Policy in the U.S. Federal System: Assessing Recent Approaches to Reducing Incarceration Rates0
From the Ivory Tower to the Courtroom: Cooperative Federalism in the Supreme Court of Canada0
A Complex Intergovernmental Problem: Why Asylum Seekers Challenge Canada’s Immigration System0
Regionalism against Centralization: Resistance to Federal Education after the Mexican Revolution0
The Fate, and Fade, of the Dormant Commerce Clause0
The US Public’s Views of Paradiplomacy, 1988–20240
The State of American Federalism 2024–2025: Resisting and Reinforcing the Rise of the Transactional Presidency0
Learning from US Marijuana Legalization Policymaking: Insights for Theories of Federalism, Policy Process, and Policy Entrepreneurship0
Subjective Perceptions of Difference in Multi-level States: Regional Values, Embeddedness, and Bias in Canadian Provinces0
States, Alliances, and Subnational Inequality: Argentina in Comparative Perspective, 2003–20190
Comparing Regional and National Climate Policy Preferences: An Analysis of Political Parties in the Basque Country and Catalonia0
Assessing the Effects of Amendment Rules in Federal Systems: Australia and Switzerland Compared0
From Cooperation to Conflict: Public Opinion, Parasecurity, and US States’ Divestment from China0
Postfunctionalism across the Atlantic: The “New Politics” in European Integration and US Federalism0
The Municipal Fiscal Crisis: A Framework for Understanding and Fixing Government Budgeting, by Mark Moses0
Do Citizens Have Views about Single Market Governance?0
Dobbs, American Federalism, and State Abortion Policymaking: Restrictive Policies Alongside Expansion of Reproductive Rights0
Trade Attitudes and Federalism: A Study of Provincial Public Opinion toward Canada–US Trade0
Measuring Identity in Substate Nations: Evidence from Quebec0
Federalism and State Restructuring in Africa: A Comparative Analysis of Origins, Rationales, and Challenges0
American Federalism: A Blessing and a Curse for Transgender Rights0
Shared Rule in Multilingual Canada and Switzerland: The Case of Public Broadcasting0
Fiscal Unions: Economic Integration in Europe and the United States, by Tomasz Wozniakowski0
Managing Diversity in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic National Assembly: Integrated Parties versus Ethno-Regional Balancing0
Fiscal Federalism: The Interaction between Own Revenues and Intergovernmental Transfers in Local Governments—The Case of Municipalities in Buenos Aires0
Federalism and the Future of US Minimum Wage Policy0
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