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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 and Territorial Policy Dynamics in Western Europe: Comparing France, Spain, Italy, Germany, and the United Kingdom	31
Governing in a Polarized Era: Federalism and the Response of U.S. State and Federal Governments to the COVID-19 Pandemic	25
Explaining Intergovernmental Coordination during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Responses in Australia, Canada, Germany, and Switzerland	23
Governors in Control: Executive Orders, State-Local Preemption, and the COVID-19 Pandemic	20
Explaining Intergovernmental Conflict in the COVID-19 Crisis: The United States, Canada, and Australia	20
Dual versus Administrative Federalism: Origins and Evolution of Two Models	18
Fiscal Federalism and Economic Crises in the United States: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic and Great Recession	17
Pandemic Policymaking in Presidential Federations: Explaining Subnational Responses to Covid-19 in Brazil, Mexico, and the United States	16
Climate and Environmental Justice Policies in the First Year of the Biden Administration	12
Building a National Economy: Origins of Centralized Federalism in India	11
The State of American Federalism, 2020–2021: Deepening Partisanship amid Tumultuous Times	10
Assessing the Performance of Australian Federalism in Responding to the Pandemic	10
Federalism, Polarization, and Policy Responsibility during COVID-19: Experimental and Observational Evidence from the United States	9
The State of American Federalism 2021–2022: Federal Courts, State Legislatures, and the Conservative Turn in the Law	8
Fighting COVID-19 in the United States with Federalism and Other Constitutional and Statutory Authority	7
Health Expenditure Decentralization and Health Outcomes: The Importance of Governance	7
Does Ethnic Federalism Lead to Greater Ethnic Identity? The Case of Ethiopia	6
Federalism and State Restructuring in Africa: A Comparative Analysis of Origins, Rationales, and Challenges	6
Who Backs Separation? An Empirical Assessment of the Objective and Subjective Markers of Identity in Support for Secession in Catalonia	5
Divided We Survive? Multilevel Governance during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy and Spain	5
Mind the Gap between the Governor and the People: The Common Agency Problem in Russian Authoritarian Federalism	5
Advocating for Medicaid Expansion in Republican States: Overcoming “Fractious Federalism” in the Statehouse and Ballot Box	5
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Election Administration, Voting Options, and Turnout in the 2020 US Election	4
The State of American Federalism 2022–2023: Escalating Culture Wars in the States	4
Projecting the Nation(s) in Multinational Federal Systems: International Education and Nation Branding in Canada/Quebec	4

Brexit and Territorial Preferences: Evidence from Scotland and Northern Ireland	4
Energy Policy Reversal during the Trump Administration: Examination of Its Legacy and Implications for Federalism	4
A Tale of Two Regions: An Analysis of Two Decades of Belgian Public Opinion	4
Dissecting Public Opinion on Regional Authority: Four Types of Regionalists Based on Citizens’ Preferences for Self-Rule and Shared Rule	3
Scrutinizing Relative Territorial Identity Measures	3
West Virginia v. EPA: Major Questions for the Future of the Administrative State and American Federalism	3
The Correlates and Characteristics of American State Identity	3
Districts for a New Decade—Partisan Outcomes and Racial Representation in the 2021–22 Redistricting Cycle	3
Federalism, Defunding the Police, and Democratic Values: A Functional Accountability Framework for Analyzing Police Reform Proposals	3
Intergovernmental Influence, Managerial Turnover, and City Energy Policy Adoption	3
Measuring and Explainingde factoRegional Policy Autonomy Variation in a Constitutionally Symmetrical Federation: The Case of Ethiopia, 1995–2020	3
Political Parties and Decentralization in Pakistan	2
Indonesian Autonomies: Explaining Divergent Self-Government Outcomes in Aceh and Papua	2
Financial Oversight Boards in the U.S. Federal System: Insights from the Puerto Rican Debt Crisis	2
Exploring Intra-State Tensions in Government Responses to COVID-19	2
Public Opinion, Federalism, and Level of Governmental Intervention: Perceptions of Law Enforcement Response to the 2020 George Floyd Protests	2
Deproblematizing the Federal–Unitary Dichotomy: Insights from a Public Opinion Survey about Approaches to Designing a Political System in Afghanistan	2
The Timing of Implementation of COVID-19 Lockdown Policies: Does Decentralization Matter?	2
Shock or Design: What Drives Fiscal De/Centralization? A Comparative Analysis of Twenty-Nine OECD Countries, 1995–2017	2
The Impact of Regional and National Leaders in Subnational Elections in Spain: Evidence from Andalusian Regional Elections	2
Laboratories of Bureaucracy: How Bureaucrats Learn across States in Setting Early Childhood Education Standards	2
State Attorneys General and their Challenges to Federal Policies: Insights from the Texas v. California Litigation Regarding the Affordable Care Act	2
Biden and the Affordable Care Act: Congressional Action, Executive Federalism, State Litigation, and Program Durability	2