OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Fiscal Federalism in Canada, edited by Andre Lecours, Daniel Béland, Trevor Tombe, and Eric Champagne	38
Laboratories Against Democracy: How National Parties Transformed State Politics, by Jacob M. Grumbach	26
Indigenous Peoples and the Future of Federalism, edited by Amy Swiften and Joshua Nichols	26
Routledge Handbook of Subnational Constitutions and Constitutionalism, edited by Patricia Popelier, Giacomo Delledonne, and Nicholas Aroney	14
How We Vote: Innovation in American Elections, by Kathleen Hale and Mitchell Brown	13
Mind the Gap between the Governor and the People: The Common Agency Problem in Russian Authoritarian Federalism	11
Biden and the Affordable Care Act: Congressional Action, Executive Federalism, State Litigation, and Program Durability	11
Legislative Underrepresentation and Executive Dominance: Why Powerful States Accept Legislative Malapportionment	10
Local Fiscal Response to State Preemption: A Case Study of Massachusetts’ Proposition 2½ Tax Referendum	10
The Promise of Text, Audio, and Video Data for the Study of US Local Politics and Federalism	10
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	10
Still a Hollow Hope: State Power and the Second Amendment, by Anthony D. Cooling	9
Federal Constitutional Values and Citizen Attitudes to Government: Explaining Federal System Viability and Reform Preferences in Eight Countries	9
Precolonial Legacies in Postcolonial Politics: Representation and Redistribution in Decentralized States, by Martha Wilfahrt	8
Nationalism, Secessionism, and Autonomy, by André Lecours	8
Monitoring Corporate Compliance through Cooperative Federalism: Trends in Multistate Settlements by State Attorneys General	6
In Her Own Name: The Politics of Women’s Rights Before Suffrage, by Sara Chatfield	6
Laboratories of Bureaucracy: How Bureaucrats Learn across States in Setting Early Childhood Education Standards	6
Paradiplomacy in Hard Times: Cooperation and Confrontation in Subnational U.S.–China Relations	6
Navigating Conflicting Incentives: Discursive Strategies of Political Parties in Germany’s Cooperative Federalism	6
Integration through Expansive Unification: The Birth of the European Health Union	5
Inequality Across State Lines: How Policymakers Have Failed Domestic Violence Victims in the United States, by Kaitlin N. Sidorsky and Wendy J. Schiller	5
In Memoriam: Richard P. Nathan	5
Fiscal Federalism, ARPA, and the Politics of Repair	5
The (re)making of local boundaries in African and European federal systems: Arguments and intergovernmental dynamics	5

What is Federalism? Some Definitional Clarification	5
Putting Federalism in Its Place: The Territorial Politics of Social Policy Revisited, by Scott L. Greer, Daniel Béland, André Lecours, and Kenneth A. Dubin	5
The Dead Hand’s Grip: How Long Constitutions Bind States, by Adam R. Brown	4
The Role of Federalism and the Centrality of State Governments for Labor Unions, Employment, and Organizing	4
Federal Judges, States Legislators, and State Voting Rights Rollback	4
A Written Constitution for Quebec? edited by Léonid Sirota and Richard Albert	4
Public Opinion, Federalism, and Level of Governmental Intervention: Perceptions of Law Enforcement Response to the 2020 George Floyd Protests	3
Federalism, Intergovernmental Conflict, and the COVID-19 Crises in Latin America	3
Correction to: Paradiplomacy in Hard Times: Cooperation and Confrontation in Subnational U.S.–China Relations	3
The Frontiers of Nullification and Anticommandeering: Federalism and Extrajudicial Constitutional Interpretation	3
A Note from the Editors	3
The Political Economy of Local Governments’ Requests for Permission to Override Central Fiscal Limitations: Insights from Israel	2
The Adaptable Country: How Canada Can Survive the Twenty-First Century, Alasdair Roberts	2
Dividing Authority Three Ways: Federal–Tribal–State Relations afterOklahoma v. Castro-Huerta	2
Past Political Asymmetry and Present Public Opinion: How Has the Asymmetrical Federation of the EU Shaped Popular Opinion of Its Optimal Shape?	2
Progressive States’ Rights: The Forgotten History of Federalism, by Sean Beienburg	2
State Pride and the Quality of Democracy in the American States	2
Measuring and Explainingde factoRegional Policy Autonomy Variation in a Constitutionally Symmetrical Federation: The Case of Ethiopia, 1995–2020	2
Democratic Federalism: The Economics, Politics, and Law of Federal Governance, by Robert P. Inman and Daniel L. Rubinfeld	2
Financial Oversight Boards in the U.S. Federal System: Insights from the Puerto Rican Debt Crisis	2
Explaining Defederalization in Ghana	2
Experimentalist Constitutions: Subnational Policy Innovations in China, India, and the United States by Yueduan Wang	2
A Research Agenda for Regional and Local Government, Edited by Mark Callanan and John Loughlin	2
Subnational Politics and Redistribution in a Federal System: Determinants of Progressive Social Spending in Brazilian States	2
A Regional System under Tight-Knit Elite Rule: The Last Attempt to Introduce Decentralization in Early Italy	2