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Papers

(The TQCC of Publius-The Journal of Federalism is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The State of American Federalism, 2020–2021: Deepening Partisanship amid Tumultuous Times	36
In Memoriam: Stephen L. Schechter	28
Laboratories Against Democracy: How National Parties Transformed State Politics, by Jacob M. Grumbach	25
Measuring and Explainingde factoRegional Policy Autonomy Variation in a Constitutionally Symmetrical Federation: The Case of Ethiopia, 1995–2020	24
The Federal Contract: A Constitutional Theory of Federalism, by Stephen Tierney	24
Fighting Political Gridlock: How States Shape Our Nation and Our Lives, by David J. Toscano	24
Citizenship Reimagined: A New Framework for State Rights in the United States, by Allan Colbern and S. Karthick Ramakrishnan	20
Indigenous Peoples and the Future of Federalism, edited by Amy Swiften and Joshua Nichols	16
Assessing the Implementation of ARPA Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds: The View from City Officials	12
American Federalism: A Blessing and a Curse for Transgender Rights	12
Experimentalist Constitutions: Subnational Policy Innovations in China, India, and the United States by Yueduan Wang	10
The Adaptable Country: How Canada Can Survive the Twenty-First Century, Alasdair Roberts.	10
National Influences on Election Outcomes for State Executive Offices	9
Governing in a Polarized Era: Federalism and the Response of U.S. State and Federal Governments to the COVID-19 Pandemic	9
Dual versus Administrative Federalism: Origins and Evolution of Two Models	9
Advocating for Medicaid Expansion in Republican States: Overcoming “Fractious Federalism” in the Statehouse and Ballot Box	8
Exploring Intra-State Tensions in Government Responses to COVID-19	7
Rethinking the Supreme Court’s Impact on American Federalism and Centralization	7
Fiscal Federalism: The Interaction between Own Revenues and Intergovernmental Transfers in Local Governments—The Case of Municipalities in Buenos Aires	6
The Political Economy of Local Governments’ Requests for Permission to Override Central Fiscal Limitations: Insights from Israel	6
Rethinking Decentralization: Mapping the Meaning of Subsidiarity in Federal Political Culture, by Jacob Deem	6
Regulatory Decentralization and Stringency: The Case of Comparative Minimum Wage and Renewable Energy Policies	6
State Pride and the Quality of Democracy in the American States	5
Fiscal Federalism in Canada, edited by Andre Lecours, Daniel Béland, Trevor Tombe, and Eric Champagne	5
Explaining Defederalization in Ghana	5

Nation-Building and Federalism in Nepal, by Krishna Hachhethu	5
Federalism, Decentral Governance, and Joint Decision-Making: Bad News for the Implementation of International Environmental Agreements?	5
A Tale of Two Regions: An Analysis of Two Decades of Belgian Public Opinion	5
Measuring Policy Diffusion in Federal Systems: The Case of Legalizing Cannabis in Canada under Time Constraints	5
Reviewers for Volume 53	4
Regulating Family Law in Federations: The Impact of De/Centralization, Religion, and International Treaties on Abortion and Child Marriage Policies	4
Divided We Survive? Multilevel Governance during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy and Spain	4
Fiscal Unions: Economic Integration in Europe and the United States, by Tomasz Wozniakowski	4
Fiscal Federalism and Economic Crises in the United States: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic and Great Recession	4
Hidden Laws: How State Constitutions Stabilize American Politics, by Robinson Woodward-Burns	4
Comparative Federalism and Covid-19: Combating the Pandemic, Edited by Nico Steytler	3
A Research Agenda for Regional and Local Government, Edited by Mark Callanan and John Loughlin	3
Routledge Handbook of Subnational Constitutions and Constitutionalism, edited by Patricia Popelier, Giacomo Delledonne, and Nicholas Aroney	3
Federal Constitutional Values and Citizen Attitudes to Government: Explaining Federal System Viability and Reform Preferences in Eight Countries	3
How We Vote: Innovation in American Elections, by Kathleen Hale and Mitchell Brown	3
Legislative Underrepresentation and Executive Dominance: Why Powerful States Accept Legislative Malapportionment	3
Biden and the Affordable Care Act: Congressional Action, Executive Federalism, State Litigation, and Program Durability	3
The Promise of Text, Audio, and Video Data for the Study of US Local Politics and Federalism	2
The Persistence of Local Caudillos in Latin America, by Tomáš Došek	2
Splitsville USA: A Democratic Argument for Breaking up the United States, by Christopher F. Zurn	2
The State of American Federalism 2023–2024: Judicialization of Gridlocked Politics	2
Dividing Authority Three Ways: Federal–Tribal–State Relations afterOklahoma v. Castro-Huerta	2
Progressive States’ Rights: The Forgotten History of Federalism, by Sean Beienburg	2
Comparing Regional and National Climate Policy Preferences: An Analysis of Political Parties in the Basque Country and Catalonia	2
Bringing Capacity Back In: Paradiplomacy and Sub-State Government Internationalization in the Global Economy	2
Districts for a New Decade—Partisan Outcomes and Racial Representation in the 2021–22 Redistricting Cycle	2
Democratic Federalism: The Economics, Politics, and Law of Federal Governance, by Robert P. Inman and Daniel L. Rubinfeld	2