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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Laboratories Against Democracy: How National Parties Transformed State Politics, by Jacob M. Grumbach	25
Fiscal Federalism in Canada, edited by Andre Lecours, Daniel Béland, Trevor Tombe, and Eric Champagne	20
Indigenous Peoples and the Future of Federalism, edited by Amy Swiften and Joshua Nichols	18
Reviewers for Volume 55	17
Explaining Subnational Variations in India’s Pandemic Response: State Capacity, Covid-Contingency, or Partisan Federalism?	17
Regulatory Mismatches in the United States and the European Union	16
Local Fiscal Response to State Preemption: A Case Study of Massachusetts’ Proposition 2½ Tax Referendum	14
Constraining the Court: Judicial Power and Policy Implementation in the Charter Era , by James B. Kelly	12
Legislative Underrepresentation and Executive Dominance: Why Powerful States Accept Legislative Malapportionment	12
The Promise of Text, Audio, and Video Data for the Study of US Local Politics and Federalism	12
Mind the Gap between the Governor and the People: The Common Agency Problem in Russian Authoritarian Federalism	11
Still a Hollow Hope: State Power and the Second Amendment, by Anthony D. Cooling	11
Navigating Conflicting Incentives: Discursive Strategies of Political Parties in Germany’s Cooperative Federalism	10
Nationalism, Secessionism, and Autonomy, by André Lecours	10
Monitoring Corporate Compliance through Cooperative Federalism: Trends in Multistate Settlements by State Attorneys General	9
Precolonial Legacies in Postcolonial Politics: Representation and Redistribution in Decentralized States, by Martha Wilfahrt	9
In Her Own Name: The Politics of Women’s Rights Before Suffrage, by Sara Chatfield	8
The (re)making of local boundaries in African and European federal systems: Arguments and intergovernmental dynamics	7
Paradiplomacy in Hard Times: Cooperation and Confrontation in Subnational U.S.–China Relations	7
Inequality Across State Lines: How Policymakers Have Failed Domestic Violence Victims in the United States, by Kaitlin N. Sidorsky and Wendy J. Schiller	6
From Expediency to Entrenchment: Territorial Finance in the UK and the Role of Crises in the Origins and Evolution of the Barnett Formula	6
What is Federalism? Some Definitional Clarification	5
Control vs. Electoral Performance: Why Personalist Rulers Choose Local Governors	5
Fiscal Federalism, ARPA, and the Politics of Repair	5
Putting Federalism in Its Place: The Territorial Politics of Social Policy Revisited, by Scott L. Greer, Daniel Béland, André Lecours, and Kenneth A. Dubin	5

Integration through Expansive Unification: The Birth of the European Health Union	5
Correction to: Paradiplomacy in Hard Times: Cooperation and Confrontation in Subnational U.S.–China Relations	4
Federalism, Intergovernmental Conflict, and the COVID-19 Crises in Latin America	4
A Note from the Editors	4
The Frontiers of Nullification and Anticommandeering: Federalism and Extrajudicial Constitutional Interpretation	4
Federal Judges, States Legislators, and State Voting Rights Rollback	4
A Written Constitution for Quebec? edited by Léonid Sirota and Richard Albert	4
The Role of Federalism and the Centrality of State Governments for Labor Unions, Employment, and Organizing	4
The Adaptable Country: How Canada Can Survive the Twenty-First Century, Alasdair Roberts	3
Measuring and Explainingde factoRegional Policy Autonomy Variation in a Constitutionally Symmetrical Federation: The Case of Ethiopia, 1995–2020	3
What Determines the Responses of Multi-Level States to Crises? A Set-Theoretical Analysis of Evidence from the Covid-19 Pandemic	3
State Pride and the Quality of Democracy in the American States	3
The Dead Hand’s Grip: How Long Constitutions Bind States, by Adam R. Brown	3
The Meaning of Regionalization: Why Federalism Is a Problem for Belgian Dutch-Speakers in Times of Democratic Malaise	3
Experimentalist Constitutions: Subnational Policy Innovations in China, India, and the United States by Yueduan Wang	3
The Political Economy of Local Governments’ Requests for Permission to Override Central Fiscal Limitations: Insights from Israel	3
Boom and bust in Puerto Rico: how politics destroyed an economic miracle . A. W. Maldonado	3
Democratic Federalism: The Economics, Politics, and Law of Federal Governance, by Robert P. Inman and Daniel L. Rubinfeld	2
Money Is Not Enough: The Temporary Impact of Pandemic-Era Aid on American Fiscal Federalism	2
Financial Oversight Boards in the U.S. Federal System: Insights from the Puerto Rican Debt Crisis	2
The Emergence of the Second Amendment Sanctuary Movement: Partisan Federalism, Not White Protectionism	2
Past Political Asymmetry and Present Public Opinion: How Has the Asymmetrical Federation of the EU Shaped Popular Opinion of Its Optimal Shape?	2
Progressive States’ Rights: The Forgotten History of Federalism, by Sean Beienburg	2
Federalism and Polarization: How Can Research Be More Relevant?	2
Crisis Management Extremes in Multi-Level Systems: Bosnia and Herzegovina	2
Introduction: The Comparative Federalism of Single Markets in Europe and the United States	2
A Research Agenda for Regional and Local Government, Edited by Mark Callanan and John Loughlin	2
Dividing Authority Three Ways: Federal–Tribal–State Relations afterOklahoma v. Castro-Huerta	2
Sorting It Out in the American States: Party Ideology and Mass Alignment	2
A Regional System under Tight-Knit Elite Rule: The Last Attempt to Introduce Decentralization in Early Italy	2
Optimality Versus Politics: The Tragedy of the Commons and Mitigating Institutions in COVID-19 Policies	2