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Federalism is a system of government where power is shared between a central authority and smaller regional governments. Many countries adopt federalism to manage ethnic diversity within their borders ...
What is federalism? To answer this question, let us look at Princeton University’s Encyclopedia Princetoniensis, which has an entry on “Federalism and federation” authored, ostensibly around 2015, by ...
Last week in this column, in the article titled “Federalism and the local government autonomy verdict”, it was argued that, due to the natural tendency for the meanings of words to change through ...
“Federalism” is not ― as the word might suggest ― a system in which the federal government dominates. Rather, it is a system in which the powers of government are divided between a national government ...
“The struggle to maintain the Constitution of the United States is an unending one. The battle is always on, although the fact be little appreciated,” wrote James M. Beck. Beck was a constitutional ...
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan warns against BJP's threat to Kerala's identity, calls for united front against Sangh Parivar.
The COVID-19 pandemic and elections have dominated the public conversation for nearly a year now. An unintended consequence of this is that state governments have proven that they can protect and ...
My recent book Democracy in the Time of Coronavirus argues for what political scientist Lisa Miller, in her review in these pages, dubs “aspirational federalism.” I like and will embrace this label.
The Biden administration wants electric vehicles to make up half of car sales by 2030, but that plan depends on action from the states. Yogi Berra told us that “it's tough to make predictions, ...