Abstract This article assesses federalism in the five African federations: Ethiopia, Nigeria, Somalia, South Africa, and Sudan. By using Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Afrobarometer data, it systematically investigates what respect succeeded failed whether success rate varies across states. It shows that is successful maintaining states’ territorial integrity, but its conflict reduction limited...

States are engaging in brute force (anti) federalism, where both sides of the political spectrum push agendas that extend beyond Founder's early ideal balanced using popular support and special interest groups' interests as their springboard. These trial‐and‐error tactics increase vertical interstate horizontal frictions, create economic challenges for businesses, American polarization. However...

This qualitative paper, mostly based on secondary data, investigates the principles and practices of Federalism in united Pakistan that led to emergence ethno-based Bengali nationalism finally separation East Pakistan. was adopted as a form government unite various ethno-nationals, linguistic cultural groups but it failed keep two wings together because its basic were not followed. It argues ge...

With promulgation of the constitution Nepal in 2015, officially adopted a federal form government as per legal and constitutional framework. Constitutionally, follows three levels governance ederal, province local. All governments have certain economic rights to handle policy program their catchment area. This study it analyzes provision fiscal federalism special local interim financial like ta...

Because federalism can be a threat to accountability, a model of voting behavior in federations must accommodate voters' attributions of responsibility to each order of government for policy outcomes. This study uses a panel survey of Canadians in both federal and provincial elections to ask whether voters are able to hold governments accountable in a federal context. Voters may ignore issues w...