The ability of federal states to manage the COVID-19 pandemic has created much debate.
Federations differ considerably in the way they have been tackling the crisis, however. To …

We examine the roles of sub-national and national governments in Canada and the United
States vis-à-vis the protective public health response in the onset phase of the global …

The political and fiscal institutions are arguably the most significant factors that determine
the way a society operates. Some countries, such as the USA and Canada, have …

Federations have traditionally divided powers either along policy lines, in which case a dual
system results, or along functional lines with the central government legislating and the …

In der vergleichenden Regierungslehre wird die „föderale Demokratie “nicht als
eigenständiger Typus betrachtet. Daher blieb auch das Verhältnis von Föderalismus und …

This article assesses federalism in the five African federations: Ethiopia, Nigeria, Somalia,
South Africa, and South Sudan. By using Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) and …

Australia's federal system handled the COVID-19 pandemic throughout 2020 remarkably
well—lauded, indeed, for the unusually cooperative manner in which it functioned (eg …

This book provides the first-ever in-depth treatment of shared rule, a crucial but so far largely
neglected dimension of federalism and multilevel governance. The book discusses shared …

This essay examines the policy response of the federal and regional governments in
federations to the COVID-19 crisis. We theorize that the COVID-19 policy response in …

Scholars widely agree that a federal system cannot work effectively without democracy. As a
result of the division or sharing of powers between levels of government, there remains …