The US federal government has been widely criticized for its response to the Coronavirus/Covid-19 pandemic. Much of poor and outcome ascribed President Trump’s personal failure. Yet more importantly this failure governmental system. More specifically, role in fashioning nationwide policies across a range areas, including public health, crippled by an anti-federalist ideology institutional inert...

According to laboratory federalism, federal systems can promote governmental innovation and experimentation, while containing the risks of only one jurisdiction. However, it is unclear whether these benefits are realised in practice states actually effective ‘laboratories’. This article evaluates extent which federalism occurring practice, focusing on a case study age discrimination law Austral...

The authors describe Title XXI of the Social Security Act as a funding scheme for children’s health insurance that represents an “experiment in federalism,” a new cooperative model under which state and federal governments interact on an equal basis. Under this scheme, the federal government provides funding and the states remain free to establish administrative details. The authors compare the...

This paper analyses the effect of federalism on fertility and growth. In a model with human capital accumulation and endogenous fertility, two regimes of education finance are compared: central and local education. Using numerical simulation, I find that local education finance yields higher growth at the price of increased inequality. Aggregate fertility may be lower or higher under federalism...

What forces shape corporation law? The basic framework that produces corporation law in the United States is readily apparent. Under the United States’ system of corporate law federalism, each state has the power to make its own laws concerning how corporations are to be governed, and a corporation may then select which state’s law will regulate its internal affairs by incorporating in that sta...