The Austrian Constitutional Court has dealt extensively with the fragmented allocation of competences, which it considers a key element federalism and thus one leading constitutional principles. Over past century, developed several methods strategies – rather than theories in order to determine exact meaning allocated competences. Among these different, sometimes contested approaches, an orig...

This Essay addresses the question of whether challenges to legislation as exceeding Congress’ powers should be assessed on a facial or an as-applied basis, a question that rose to the fore in the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Tennessee v. Lane. The Essay begins by arguing that what distinguishes a facial challenge is that it involves an attack on some general rule embodied in the statute. ...

Article history: Received 18 April 2005 Received in revised form 20 March 2008 Accepted 7 May 2008 Available online 24 May 2008 Which government functions should be decentralized (resp. centralized) once lobbying behavior is taken into account?We find that the answer largely depends on how the interests of the regional lobbies are positioned with respect to the function to be decentralized (res...

This study examined the impact of fiscal federalism on economic development in Nigeria over period 1981 to 2020 using annual time series. Both revenue and expenditure decentralization were used as measures federalism. Analytically, employed autoregressive distributed lag approach. The result reveals that long run, have a positive significant Nigeria, many scholars validated this finding. findin...