The current paper models power-maximizing politicians’ behavior subject to imperfect political competition and perfect citizen mobility. It then analyzes the welfare implications of federal and non-federal structures. The model abstracts from both heterogeneous preferences (the most common argument in favor of federalism) and externalities (the most common argument against), showing that even i...

The implications from the Brazilian federal structure on the regionalization of health actions and services in the National Unified Health System (SUS) were analyzed, considering that the regional health planning in Brazil takes place within the context of intergovernmental relations as an expression of cooperative federalism in health. The analysis was based on a historical approach to Brazili...

Article IV imposes prohibitions on interstate discrimination that are central to our status as a single nation, yet the Constitution also grants Congress broad power over interstate relations. This raises questions with respect to the scope of Congress's power over interstate relations, what is sometimes referred to as the horizontal dimension of federalism. In particular, does Congress have th...

This article analyzes European Union (EU) politics through the lens of comparative federalism. The article assesses the contributions that rationalist and constructivist approaches can make to the analysis of EU federalism, focusing on two broad questions. First, what explains shifts in authority from the state (i.e., member states) to the federal (i.e., EU) level? Second, what explains the deg...

Professor Charlton Copeland offers a wide-ranging, ambitious critique of what he characterizes as federalism jurisprudence’s dominant models of “separation” and “allocation” of authority between the respective federal and state spheres. Judicial resolution of federalism questions, he suggests, turns inappropriately and incompletely on the moment of a law’s enactment. This “obsession with the le...

Sustainable telecommunications policies require simultaneous satisfaction of economic viability and political feasibility constraints, and meeting these constraints is increasingly difficult in a competitive regulatory regime. In prior research, Cherry has sought to provide a general analytical framework for designing sustainable telecommunications policies, relying primarily on legal and econo...

Prior to 1991, Ethiopia experiences a unitary state system in which the central government had an undivided ultimate right on all aspects of economic, social, and political issues. Initiated, organized, and led by an association of discontented Tigrean elites, due to high centralization of power, the TPLF started its liberation movement to topple the military regime. Assuming power EPRDF establ...

Heather Gerken was not always a federalism scholar. In fact, for years she delighted in mocking those of us who cared about limits on national power, insisting that the states were good only for picking flags and birds.I Now, of course, Professor Gerken is one of the brightest stars in the federalism field,2 and it is a pleasure to have this opportunity to honor and take stock of her important ...

a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t JEL classification: H77 H11 H71 R11 R58 Keywords: Fiscal federalism State and local taxation Intergovernmental relations Revenue First generation fiscal federalism (FGFF) studies the performance of decentralized systems under the assumption of benevolent social planners. Second generation fiscal federalism (SGFF) studies performance based on the fiscal and ...