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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

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	32
Indigenous Peoples and the Future of Federalism, edited by Amy Swiften and Joshua Nichols	31
Routledge Handbook of Subnational Constitutions and Constitutionalism, edited by Patricia Popelier, Giacomo Delledonne, and Nicholas Aroney	27
Biden and the Affordable Care Act: Congressional Action, Executive Federalism, State Litigation, and Program Durability	25
How We Vote: Innovation in American Elections, by Kathleen Hale and Mitchell Brown	25
The Promise of Text, Audio, and Video Data for the Study of US Local Politics and Federalism	24
Federal Constitutional Values and Citizen Attitudes to Government: Explaining Federal System Viability and Reform Preferences in Eight Countries	24
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	16
Local Fiscal Response to State Preemption: A Case Study of Massachusetts’ Proposition 2½ Tax Referendum	12
Legislative Underrepresentation and Executive Dominance: Why Powerful States Accept Legislative Malapportionment	12
Mind the Gap between the Governor and the People: The Common Agency Problem in Russian Authoritarian Federalism	11
Still a Hollow Hope: State Power and the Second Amendment, by Anthony D. Cooling	10
Navigating Conflicting Incentives: Discursive Strategies of Political Parties in Germany’s Cooperative Federalism	9
Nationalism, Secessionism, and Autonomy, by André Lecours	9
Laboratories of Bureaucracy: How Bureaucrats Learn across States in Setting Early Childhood Education Standards	9
Precolonial Legacies in Postcolonial Politics: Representation and Redistribution in Decentralized States, by Martha Wilfahrt	9
Monitoring Corporate Compliance through Cooperative Federalism: Trends in Multistate Settlements by State Attorneys General	9
Paradiplomacy in Hard Times: Cooperation and Confrontation in Subnational U.S.–China Relations	7
The (re)making of local boundaries in African and European federal systems: Arguments and intergovernmental dynamics	7
Putting Federalism in Its Place: The Territorial Politics of Social Policy Revisited, by Scott L. Greer, Daniel Béland, André Lecours, and Kenneth A. Dubin	6
Fiscal Federalism, ARPA, and the Politics of Repair	6
Inequality Across State Lines: How Policymakers Have Failed Domestic Violence Victims in the United States, by Kaitlin N. Sidorsky and Wendy J. Schiller	6
Federalism, Defunding the Police, and Democratic Values: A Functional Accountability Framework for Analyzing Police Reform Proposals	6
Federal Judges, States Legislators, and State Voting Rights Rollback	5

Integration through Expansive Unification: The Birth of the European Health Union	5
What is Federalism? Some Definitional Clarification	5
In Memoriam: Richard P. Nathan	5
The Role of Federalism and the Centrality of State Governments for Labor Unions, Employment, and Organizing	5
The Dead Hand’s Grip: How Long Constitutions Bind States, by Adam R. Brown	5
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	4
Correction to: Paradiplomacy in Hard Times: Cooperation and Confrontation in Subnational U.S.–China Relations	4
The Political Economy of Local Governments’ Requests for Permission to Override Central Fiscal Limitations: Insights from Israel	4
A Note from the Editors	4
The Frontiers of Nullification and Anticommandeering: Federalism and Extrajudicial Constitutional Interpretation	4
Federalism, Intergovernmental Conflict, and the COVID-19 Crises in Latin America	4
Progressive States’ Rights: The Forgotten History of Federalism, by Sean Beienburg	3
The Adaptable Country: How Canada Can Survive the Twenty-First Century, Alasdair Roberts	3
Measuring and Explainingde factoRegional Policy Autonomy Variation in a Constitutionally Symmetrical Federation: The Case of Ethiopia, 1995–2020	3
A Research Agenda for Regional and Local Government, Edited by Mark Callanan and John Loughlin	3
Explaining Defederalization in Ghana	3
State Pride and the Quality of Democracy in the American States	3
Financial Oversight Boards in the U.S. Federal System: Insights from the Puerto Rican Debt Crisis	3
Experimentalist Constitutions: Subnational Policy Innovations in China, India, and the United States by Yueduan Wang	3
Democratic Federalism: The Economics, Politics, and Law of Federal Governance, by Robert P. Inman and Daniel L. Rubinfeld	2
The Emergence of the Second Amendment Sanctuary Movement: Partisan Federalism, Not White Protectionism	2
Following in Footsteps or Marching Alone? How Institutional Differences Influence Renewable Energy Policy, by Srinivas C. Parinandi	2
Dividing Authority Three Ways: Federal–Tribal–State Relations afterOklahoma v. Castro-Huerta	2
Subnational Politics and Redistribution in a Federal System: Determinants of Progressive Social Spending in Brazilian States	2
Scrutinizing Relative Territorial Identity Measures	2
Past Political Asymmetry and Present Public Opinion: How Has the Asymmetrical Federation of the EU Shaped Popular Opinion of Its Optimal Shape?	2
Why States Preempt City Ordinances: The Case of Workers’ Rights Laws	2
A Regional System under Tight-Knit Elite Rule: The Last Attempt to Introduce Decentralization in Early Italy	2