OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Publius-The Journal of Federalism is 2. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Laboratories Against Democracy: How National Parties Transformed State Politics, by Jacob M. Grumbach	29
Fiscal Federalism in Canada, edited by Andre Lecours, Daniel Béland, Trevor Tombe, and Eric Champagne	22
Indigenous Peoples and the Future of Federalism, edited by Amy Swiften and Joshua Nichols	18
Reviewers for Volume 55	15
Regulatory Mismatches in the United States and the European Union	14
Biden and the Affordable Care Act: Congressional Action, Executive Federalism, State Litigation, and Program Durability	14
Routledge Handbook of Subnational Constitutions and Constitutionalism, edited by Patricia Popelier, Giacomo Delledonne, and Nicholas Aroney	13
Local Fiscal Response to State Preemption: A Case Study of Massachusetts’ Proposition 2½ Tax Referendum	12
Legislative Underrepresentation and Executive Dominance: Why Powerful States Accept Legislative Malapportionment	11
Mind the Gap between the Governor and the People: The Common Agency Problem in Russian Authoritarian Federalism	10
Constraining the Court: Judicial Power and Policy Implementation in the Charter Era , by James B. Kelly	9
Still a Hollow Hope: State Power and the Second Amendment, by Anthony D. Cooling	9
The Promise of Text, Audio, and Video Data for the Study of US Local Politics and Federalism	9
Nationalism, Secessionism, and Autonomy, by André Lecours	8
Navigating Conflicting Incentives: Discursive Strategies of Political Parties in Germany’s Cooperative Federalism	8
Precolonial Legacies in Postcolonial Politics: Representation and Redistribution in Decentralized States, by Martha Wilfahrt	8
In Her Own Name: The Politics of Women’s Rights Before Suffrage, by Sara Chatfield	7
The (re)making of local boundaries in African and European federal systems: Arguments and intergovernmental dynamics	7
Monitoring Corporate Compliance through Cooperative Federalism: Trends in Multistate Settlements by State Attorneys General	7
Laboratories of Bureaucracy: How Bureaucrats Learn across States in Setting Early Childhood Education Standards	7
Paradiplomacy in Hard Times: Cooperation and Confrontation in Subnational U.S.–China Relations	7
Putting Federalism in Its Place: The Territorial Politics of Social Policy Revisited, by Scott L. Greer, Daniel Béland, André Lecours, and Kenneth A. Dubin	6
Inequality Across State Lines: How Policymakers Have Failed Domestic Violence Victims in the United States, by Kaitlin N. Sidorsky and Wendy J. Schiller	6
Control vs. Electoral Performance: Why Personalist Rulers Choose Local Governors	5
In Memoriam: Richard P. Nathan	4

What is Federalism? Some Definitional Clarification	4
The Dead Hand’s Grip: How Long Constitutions Bind States, by Adam R. Brown	4
Fiscal Federalism, ARPA, and the Politics of Repair	4
A Note from the Editors	4
Integration through Expansive Unification: The Birth of the European Health Union	4
The Role of Federalism and the Centrality of State Governments for Labor Unions, Employment, and Organizing	3
The Frontiers of Nullification and Anticommandeering: Federalism and Extrajudicial Constitutional Interpretation	3
Measuring and Explainingde factoRegional Policy Autonomy Variation in a Constitutionally Symmetrical Federation: The Case of Ethiopia, 1995–2020	3
Experimentalist Constitutions: Subnational Policy Innovations in China, India, and the United States by Yueduan Wang	3
Federalism, Intergovernmental Conflict, and the COVID-19 Crises in Latin America	3
Correction to: Paradiplomacy in Hard Times: Cooperation and Confrontation in Subnational U.S.–China Relations	3
Federal Judges, States Legislators, and State Voting Rights Rollback	3
State Pride and the Quality of Democracy in the American States	3
A Written Constitution for Quebec? edited by Léonid Sirota and Richard Albert	3
Public Opinion, Federalism, and Level of Governmental Intervention: Perceptions of Law Enforcement Response to the 2020 George Floyd Protests	3
The Adaptable Country: How Canada Can Survive the Twenty-First Century, Alasdair Roberts	3
The Political Economy of Local Governments’ Requests for Permission to Override Central Fiscal Limitations: Insights from Israel	3
A Research Agenda for Regional and Local Government, Edited by Mark Callanan and John Loughlin	2
Sorting It Out in the American States: Party Ideology and Mass Alignment	2
Money Is Not Enough: The Temporary Impact of Pandemic-Era Aid on American Fiscal Federalism	2
The Emergence of the Second Amendment Sanctuary Movement: Partisan Federalism, Not White Protectionism	2
Scrutinizing Relative Territorial Identity Measures	2
The State of American Federalism 2022–2023: Escalating Culture Wars in the States	2
Democratic Federalism: The Economics, Politics, and Law of Federal Governance, by Robert P. Inman and Daniel L. Rubinfeld	2
Past Political Asymmetry and Present Public Opinion: How Has the Asymmetrical Federation of the EU Shaped Popular Opinion of Its Optimal Shape?	2
Financial Oversight Boards in the U.S. Federal System: Insights from the Puerto Rican Debt Crisis	2
Introduction: The Comparative Federalism of Single Markets in Europe and the United States	2
Why States Preempt City Ordinances: The Case of Workers’ Rights Laws	2
Progressive States’ Rights: The Forgotten History of Federalism, by Sean Beienburg	2
Dividing Authority Three Ways: Federal–Tribal–State Relations afterOklahoma v. Castro-Huerta	2
Federalism and Polarization: How Can Research Be More Relevant?	2
Following in Footsteps or Marching Alone? How Institutional Differences Influence Renewable Energy Policy, by Srinivas C. Parinandi	2
A Regional System under Tight-Knit Elite Rule: The Last Attempt to Introduce Decentralization in Early Italy	2