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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Laboratories Against Democracy: How National Parties Transformed State Politics, by Jacob M. Grumbach	29
Fiscal Federalism in Canada, edited by Andre Lecours, Daniel Béland, Trevor Tombe, and Eric Champagne	18
Indigenous Peoples and the Future of Federalism, edited by Amy Swiften and Joshua Nichols	18
Reviewers for Volume 55	14
Regulatory Mismatches in the United States and the European Union	12
Routledge Handbook of Subnational Constitutions and Constitutionalism, edited by Patricia Popelier, Giacomo Delledonne, and Nicholas Aroney	12
Biden and the Affordable Care Act: Congressional Action, Executive Federalism, State Litigation, and Program Durability	12
The Promise of Text, Audio, and Video Data for the Study of US Local Politics and Federalism	11
Local Fiscal Response to State Preemption: A Case Study of Massachusetts’ Proposition 2½ Tax Referendum	11
Mind the Gap between the Governor and the People: The Common Agency Problem in Russian Authoritarian Federalism	10
Legislative Underrepresentation and Executive Dominance: Why Powerful States Accept Legislative Malapportionment	9
Constraining the Court: Judicial Power and Policy Implementation in the Charter Era , by James B. Kelly	9
Precolonial Legacies in Postcolonial Politics: Representation and Redistribution in Decentralized States, by Martha Wilfahrt	7
Still a Hollow Hope: State Power and the Second Amendment, by Anthony D. Cooling	7
Navigating Conflicting Incentives: Discursive Strategies of Political Parties in Germany’s Cooperative Federalism	7
Nationalism, Secessionism, and Autonomy, by André Lecours	7
Laboratories of Bureaucracy: How Bureaucrats Learn across States in Setting Early Childhood Education Standards	6
Monitoring Corporate Compliance through Cooperative Federalism: Trends in Multistate Settlements by State Attorneys General	6
Paradiplomacy in Hard Times: Cooperation and Confrontation in Subnational U.S.–China Relations	6
In Her Own Name: The Politics of Women’s Rights Before Suffrage, by Sara Chatfield	6
The (re)making of local boundaries in African and European federal systems: Arguments and intergovernmental dynamics	6
Inequality Across State Lines: How Policymakers Have Failed Domestic Violence Victims in the United States, by Kaitlin N. Sidorsky and Wendy J. Schiller	5
Control vs. Electoral Performance: Why Personalist Rulers Choose Local Governors	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

What is Federalism? Some Definitional Clarification	4
Integration through Expansive Unification: The Birth of the European Health Union	4
Fiscal Federalism, ARPA, and the Politics of Repair	4
A Written Constitution for Quebec? edited by Léonid Sirota and Richard Albert	3
A Note from the Editors	3
Federalism, Intergovernmental Conflict, and the COVID-19 Crises in Latin America	3
In Memoriam: Richard P. Nathan	3
The Role of Federalism and the Centrality of State Governments for Labor Unions, Employment, and Organizing	3
The Frontiers of Nullification and Anticommandeering: Federalism and Extrajudicial Constitutional Interpretation	3
Federal Judges, States Legislators, and State Voting Rights Rollback	3
Public Opinion, Federalism, and Level of Governmental Intervention: Perceptions of Law Enforcement Response to the 2020 George Floyd Protests	3
Correction to: Paradiplomacy in Hard Times: Cooperation and Confrontation in Subnational U.S.–China Relations	3
Financial Oversight Boards in the U.S. Federal System: Insights from the Puerto Rican Debt Crisis	2
Introduction: The Comparative Federalism of Single Markets in Europe and the United States	2
The Adaptable Country: How Canada Can Survive the Twenty-First Century, Alasdair Roberts	2
State Pride and the Quality of Democracy in the American States	2
Dividing Authority Three Ways: Federal–Tribal–State Relations afterOklahoma v. Castro-Huerta	2
A Regional System under Tight-Knit Elite Rule: The Last Attempt to Introduce Decentralization in Early Italy	2
Progressive States’ Rights: The Forgotten History of Federalism, by Sean Beienburg	2
The Political Economy of Local Governments’ Requests for Permission to Override Central Fiscal Limitations: Insights from Israel	2
Explaining Defederalization in Ghana	2
A Research Agenda for Regional and Local Government, Edited by Mark Callanan and John Loughlin	2
Sorting It Out in the American States: Party Ideology and Mass Alignment	2
The Emergence of the Second Amendment Sanctuary Movement: Partisan Federalism, Not White Protectionism	2
Past Political Asymmetry and Present Public Opinion: How Has the Asymmetrical Federation of the EU Shaped Popular Opinion of Its Optimal Shape?	2
Experimentalist Constitutions: Subnational Policy Innovations in China, India, and the United States by Yueduan Wang	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