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Papers

(The median citation count of Publius-The Journal of Federalism is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 and Territorial Policy Dynamics in Western Europe: Comparing France, Spain, Italy, Germany, and the United Kingdom	22
Explaining Intergovernmental Coordination during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Responses in Australia, Canada, Germany, and Switzerland	21
Governing in a Polarized Era: Federalism and the Response of U.S. State and Federal Governments to the COVID-19 Pandemic	20
Governors in Control: Executive Orders, State-Local Preemption, and the COVID-19 Pandemic	18
Explaining Intergovernmental Conflict in the COVID-19 Crisis: The United States, Canada, and Australia	17
Public Attribution of Responsibility for Disaster Preparedness across Three Levels of Government and the Public: Lessons from a Survey of Residents of the U.S. South Atlantic and Gulf Coast	15
Fiscal Federalism and Economic Crises in the United States: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic and Great Recession	15
Dual versus Administrative Federalism: Origins and Evolution of Two Models	12
Pandemic Policymaking in Presidential Federations: Explaining Subnational Responses to Covid-19 in Brazil, Mexico, and the United States	12
Assessing the Performance of Australian Federalism in Responding to the Pandemic	10
Federalism, Polarization, and Policy Responsibility during COVID-19: Experimental and Observational Evidence from the United States	9
Building a National Economy: Origins of Centralized Federalism in India	9
An Environmental Race to the Bottom? “No More Stringent” Laws in the American States	7
Decentralization’s Effects on Education and Health: Evidence from Ethiopia	7
The State of American Federalism, 2020–2021: Deepening Partisanship amid Tumultuous Times	7
Climate and Environmental Justice Policies in the First Year of the Biden Administration	7
The State of American Federalism 2021–2022: Federal Courts, State Legislatures, and the Conservative Turn in the Law	5
Attitudes toward Ethnocultural Diversity in Multilevel Political Communities: Comparing the Effect of National and Subnational Attachments in Canada	5
Who Backs Separation? An Empirical Assessment of the Objective and Subjective Markers of Identity in Support for Secession in Catalonia	5
Fighting COVID-19 in the United States with Federalism and Other Constitutional and Statutory Authority	5
Does the Primacy System Work? State versus Federal Implementation of the Clean Water Act	5
Federalism and State Restructuring in Africa: A Comparative Analysis of Origins, Rationales, and Challenges	4
Mind the Gap between the Governor and the People: The Common Agency Problem in Russian Authoritarian Federalism	4
The Effect of Institutional Affiliation and Career Patterns on (De)centralization Preferences in Advanced Multi-Level States: Parliamentarians’ Support for (De)Centralization in Belgium	4
Advocating for Medicaid Expansion in Republican States: Overcoming “Fractious Federalism” in the Statehouse and Ballot Box	4

Support for Regionalization in Federal Belgium: The Role of Political Socialization	4
Measuring and Explainingde factoRegional Policy Autonomy Variation in a Constitutionally Symmetrical Federation: The Case of Ethiopia, 1995–2020	3
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Election Administration, Voting Options, and Turnout in the 2020 US Election	3
Intergovernmental Influence, Managerial Turnover, and City Energy Policy Adoption	3
A Tale of Two Regions: An Analysis of Two Decades of Belgian Public Opinion	3
Does Ethnic Federalism Lead to Greater Ethnic Identity? The Case of Ethiopia	3
Health Expenditure Decentralization and Health Outcomes: The Importance of Governance	3
Brexit and Territorial Preferences: Evidence from Scotland and Northern Ireland	3
Energy Policy Reversal during the Trump Administration: Examination of Its Legacy and Implications for Federalism	3
Public Opinion, Federalism, and Level of Governmental Intervention: Perceptions of Law Enforcement Response to the 2020 George Floyd Protests	2
Deproblematizing the Federal–Unitary Dichotomy: Insights from a Public Opinion Survey about Approaches to Designing a Political System in Afghanistan	2
Laboratories of Bureaucracy: How Bureaucrats Learn across States in Setting Early Childhood Education Standards	2
Biden and the Affordable Care Act: Congressional Action, Executive Federalism, State Litigation, and Program Durability	2
Federalism, Defunding the Police, and Democratic Values: A Functional Accountability Framework for Analyzing Police Reform Proposals	2
Dissecting Public Opinion on Regional Authority: Four Types of Regionalists Based on Citizens’ Preferences for Self-Rule and Shared Rule	2
Scrutinizing Relative Territorial Identity Measures	2
Districts for a New Decade—Partisan Outcomes and Racial Representation in the 2021–22 Redistricting Cycle	2
The Impact of Regional and National Leaders in Subnational Elections in Spain: Evidence from Andalusian Regional Elections	2
The Correlates and Characteristics of American State Identity	2
Projecting the Nation(s) in Multinational Federal Systems: International Education and Nation Branding in Canada/Quebec	2
Indonesian Autonomies: Explaining Divergent Self-Government Outcomes in Aceh and Papua	2
Divided We Survive? Multilevel Governance during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy and Spain	2
The Timing of Implementation of COVID-19 Lockdown Policies: Does Decentralization Matter?	1
Undermining Governors: Argentina’s Double-Punishment Federal Spending Strategy	1
Regulating Family Law in Federations: The Impact of De/Centralization, Religion, and International Treaties on Abortion and Child Marriage Policies	1
Shock or Design: What Drives Fiscal De/Centralization? A Comparative Analysis of Twenty-Nine OECD Countries, 1995–2017	1
Regulatory Decentralization and Stringency: The Case of Comparative Minimum Wage and Renewable Energy Policies	1
Dobbs, American Federalism, and State Abortion Policymaking: Restrictive Policies Alongside Expansion of Reproductive Rights	1
Political Parties and Decentralization in Pakistan	1
The State of American Federalism 2022–2023: Escalating Culture Wars in the States	1
Providing Opinions: State Attorneys General and State Constitutions	1
City, State: Constitutionalism and the Megacity, by Ran Hirschl	1
Comparative Federalism and Covid-19: Combating the Pandemic, Edited by Nico Steytler	1
Exploring Intra-State Tensions in Government Responses to COVID-19	1
Explaining Defederalization in Ghana	1
West Virginia v. EPA: Major Questions for the Future of the Administrative State and American Federalism	1
From the Ivory Tower to the Courtroom: Cooperative Federalism in the Supreme Court of Canada	1
Why States Preempt City Ordinances: The Case of Workers’ Rights Laws	1
The Efficiency-Equity Trade-off in a Federal System: Local Financing of Schools and Student Achievement	1
Indirect Federal Subsidy and Tax Exportation through State and Local Tax Deduction: Understanding the Impact of the 2017 Tax Reform on State and Local Governments	1
Financial Oversight Boards in the U.S. Federal System: Insights from the Puerto Rican Debt Crisis	1
Citizenship Reimagined: A New Framework for State Rights in the United States, by Allan Colbern and S. Karthick Ramakrishnan	1
Legislative Territorialization: The Impact of a Decentralized Party System on Individual Legislative Behavior in Argentina	1
Ideology and Support for Federalism in Theory—And in Practice	1
We Are Not One People: Secession and Separatism in American Politics since 1776, by Michael J. Lee and R. Jarrod Atchison	0
Monitoring American Federalism: The History of State Legislative Resistance, by Christian G. Fritz	0
Identities, Trust, and Cohesion in Federal Systems: Public Perspectives, edited by Jack Jedwab and John Kincaid	0
Correction to: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Election Administration, Voting Options, and Turnout in the 2020 US Election	0
A Research Agenda for Regional and Local Government, Edited by Mark Callanan and John Loughlin	0
Federalism in Canada: Contested Concepts and Uneasy Balances, by Thomas O. Hueglin	0

Splitsville USA: A Democratic Argument for Breaking Up the United States, by Christopher F. Zurn	0
Federalism and Confidence in Australian Governments During the COVID-19 Pandemic	0
Reviewers for Volume 52	0
Federal Constitutional Values and Citizen Attitudes to Government: Explaining Federal System Viability and Reform Preferences in Eight Countries	0
Seeing Red and Blue: Assessing How Americans Understand Geographic Polarization, Secession, and the Value of Federalism	0
Federalism, Decentral Governance, and Joint Decision-Making: Bad News for the Implementation of International Environmental Agreements?	0
Federalism and Decentralization in the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa, Edited by Aslı Ü. Bâli and Omar M. Dajani	0
Trump, the Administrative Presidency, and Federalism, by Frank J. Thompson, Kenneth K. Wong, and Barry G. Rabe	0
Delivering on Environmental Justice? U.S. State Implementation of the Justice40 Initiative	0
Measuring Policy Diffusion in Federal Systems: The Case of Legalizing Cannabis in Canada under Time Constraints	0
Managing Diversity in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic National Assembly: Integrated Parties versus Ethno-Regional Balancing	0
Fiscal Federalism: The Interaction between Own Revenues and Intergovernmental Transfers in Local Governments—The Case of Municipalities in Buenos Aires	0
Gerrymandering the States: Partisanship, Race, and the Transformation of American Federalism, by Alex Keena, Michael Lanter, Anthony J. McGann, and Charles Anthony Smith	0
In Memoriam: Richard P. Nathan	0
In Memoriam: Stephen L. Schechter	0
Precolonial Legacies in Postcolonial Politics: Representation and Redistribution in Decentralized States, by Martha Wilfahrt	0
Cooperation and Conflict between State and Local Government, edited by Russell L. Hanson and Eric S. Zeemering	0
The Municipal Fiscal Crisis: A Framework for Understanding and Fixing Government Budgeting, by Mark Moses	0
The Symbolic State: Minority Recognition, Majority Backlash, and Secession in Multinational Countries, by Karlo Basta	0
A Regional System under Tight-Knit Elite Rule: The Last Attempt to Introduce Decentralization in Early Italy	0
Putting Federalism in Its Place: The Territorial Politics of Social Policy Revisited, by Scott L. Greer, Daniel Béland, André Lecours, and Kenneth A. Dubin	0
Integration through Expansive Unification: The Birth of the European Health Union	0
Still a Hollow Hope: State Power and the Second Amendment, by Anthony D. Cooling	0
Inequality Across State Lines: How Policymakers Have Failed Domestic Violence Victims in the United States, by Kaitlin N. Sidorsky and Wendy J. Schiller	0
Handbook on Gender, Diversity and Federalism, edited by Jill Vickers, Joan Grace, and Cheryl N. Collier	0
Assessing the Effects of Amendment Rules in Federal Systems: Australia and Switzerland Compared	0
Local Accountability and National Coordination in Fiscal Federalism, by Charles Hankla, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, and Raul Alberto Ponce Rodriguez	0
How We Vote: Innovation in American Elections, by Kathleen Hale and Mitchell Brown	0
Post-Partition Citizenship Policies: Lessons from Post-Yugoslav Federal States	0
Past Political Asymmetry and Present Public Opinion: How Has the Asymmetrical Federation of the EU Shaped Popular Opinion of Its Optimal Shape?	0
The Dead Hand’s Grip: How Long Constitutions Bind States, by Adam R. Brown	0
Reviewers for Volume 53	0
Fiscal Decentralization and Health Care Access and Quality: Evidence from Local Governments around the World	0
Routledge Handbook of Subnational Constitutions and Constitutionalism, edited by Patricia Popelier, Giacomo Delledonne, and Nicholas Aroney	0
Federalism and Constitutional Law: The Italian Contribution to Comparative Regionalism, edited by Erika Arban, Giuseppe Martinico, and Francesco Palermo	0
Fiscal Unions: Economic Integration in Europe and the United States, by Tomasz Wozniakowski	0
The Determinants of Taxation Innovation Policy in Spain’s Common Regime Autonomous Communities (1986–2018)	0
The Federal Contract: A Constitutional Theory of Federalism, by Stephen Tierney	0
Educational Accountability and American Federalism: Moving beyond a Test-Based Approach, by John Portz	0
A Written Constitution for Quebec? edited by Léonid Sirota and Richard Albert	0
Laboratories Against Democracy: How National Parties Transformed State Politics, by Jacob M. Grumbach	0
Dynamic Federalism: A New Theory for Cohesion and Regional Autonomy, by Patricia Popelier	0
Democracy and Deliberation: The Law and Politics of Sex Offender Legislation, by Cary Federman	0
State Pride and the Quality of Democracy in the American States	0
Correction to: Book Review: Fiscal Unions: Economic Integration in Europe and the United States, by Tomasz Wozniakowski	0
Reviewers for Volume 51	0
Clean Water Policy and State Choice: Promise and Performance in the Water Quality Act, by John C. Morris	0
Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present, by Mary Ziegler	0
Power-Sharing in Europe: Past Practice, Present Cases and Future Directions, edited by Soeren Keil and Allison McCulloch	0
Small Isn’t Beautiful: The Case against Localism, by Trevor Latimer	0
Cities in Federal Constitutional Theory, Edited by Erika Arban.	0
Teaching Federalism: Multidimensional Approaches, by John Kincaid and J. Wesley Leckrone	0
Regionalism against Centralization: Resistance to Federal Education after the Mexican Revolution	0
Nationalism, Secessionism, and Autonomy, by André Lecours	0
The Effect of Intergovernmental Policy Conflict on Immigrants’ Behavior: Insights from a Survey Experiment in California	0
Who Decides? States as Laboratories of Constitutional Experimentation, by Jeffrey S. Sutton	0
Local Fiscal Response to State Preemption: A Case Study of Massachusetts’ Proposition 2½ Tax Referendum	0
Subnational Politics and Redistribution in a Federal System: Determinants of Progressive Social Spending in Brazilian States	0
Cords of Affection: Constructing Constitutional Union in Early American History, by Emily Pears	0
Dividing Authority Three Ways: Federal–Tribal–State Relations afterOklahoma v. Castro-Huerta	0
The Consequences of Direct Democracy for the Balance of Power between State and Local Governments in the United States	0
Nation-Building and Federalism in Nepal, by Krishna Hachhethu	0
Intergovernmental Relations: State and Local Challenges in the Twenty-First Century, by Jonathan M. Fisk	0
Hidden Laws: How State Constitutions Stabilize American Politics, by Robinson Woodward-Burns	0
State Incarceration Policy in the U.S. Federal System: Assessing Recent Approaches to Reducing Incarceration Rates	0
Rethinking the Supreme Court’s Impact on American Federalism and Centralization	0
Monitoring Corporate Compliance through Cooperative Federalism: Trends in Multistate Settlements by State Attorneys General	0
Fighting Political Gridlock: How States Shape Our Nation and Our Lives, by David J. Toscano	0
Following in Footsteps or Marching Alone? How Institutional Differences Influence Renewable Energy Policy, by Srinivas C. Parinandi	0
The Role of Federalism and the Centrality of State Governments for Labor Unions, Employment, and Organizing	0
The Political Economy of Local Governments’ Requests for Permission to Override Central Fiscal Limitations: Insights from Israel	0
Rethinking Federalism Studies, by Carol S. Weissert	0
When Cities Lobby: How Local Governments Compete for Power in State Politics, by Julia Payson	0
A Note from the Editors	0
Hybrid Regimes within Democracies: Fiscal Federalism and Subnational Rentier States, by Carlos Gervasoni	0
Rethinking Decentralization: Mapping the Meaning of Subsidiarity in Federal Political Culture, by Jacob Deem	0
State Attorneys General and their Challenges to Federal Policies: Insights from the Texas v. California Litigation Regarding the Affordable Care Act	0
What is Federalism? Some Definitional Clarification	0
Exploring the Relationship between Federal Reform and the Representation of the People: The Case of the Belgian House of Representatives	0
The First- and Second-Nature Geographic Correlates of Federal Budget Transfers and Fiscal Dependence—Evidence from Russia and the United States	0