What’s the most important issue that the 2016 presidential candidates won’t be talking about? A very good bet is the train wreck facing federal-state-local finances. There are lots of mega-issues on ...

Events in recent weeks have led to plenty of squabbles about issues generally relating to federalism and intergovernmental relations. Most prominent, of course, has been the back and forth between ...

Beyond its effects on public health strategies, economic management policies as well as attitudes towards poverty alleviation and social inequality, the raging coronavirus pandemic will also have ...

Back in 1959, President Eisenhower signed legislation creating the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, composed of a grab-bag of federal, state and local officials, along with several ...

When policy scholars assess the effects of federalism on climate change mitigation, they often look at countries that rejected binding commitments (in particular, the USA) and find that federalism ...

Although Russia is legally a federation, it has experienced serious problems in developing and maintaining satisfactory fiscal relations between its central government and regional and local ...

Michael S. Sparer ([email protected]) is a professor in and chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, in New York City. To ...

Alan Fenna receives funding from the Australian Research Council. The Conversation has asked 20 academics to examine the big ideas facing Australia for the 2016 federal election and beyond. The ...

Richard Eccleston would like to acknowledge the financial support of the Australian Research Council through funding Discovery Projects (DP 1095946; DP 13100281; DP 130104088) Is Tasmania at a tipping ...