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Papers

(The TQCC of Publius-The Journal of Federalism is 1. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Fiscal Federalism in Canada, edited by Andre Lecours, Daniel Béland, Trevor Tombe, and Eric Champagne	28
Laboratories Against Democracy: How National Parties Transformed State Politics, by Jacob M. Grumbach	18
Indigenous Peoples and the Future of Federalism, edited by Amy Swiften and Joshua Nichols	14
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	11
Local Fiscal Response to State Preemption: A Case Study of Massachusetts’ Proposition 2½ Tax Referendum	11
The Promise of Text, Audio, and Video Data for the Study of US Local Politics and Federalism	10
Still a Hollow Hope: State Power and the Second Amendment, by Anthony D. Cooling	9
Mind the Gap between the Governor and the People: The Common Agency Problem in Russian Authoritarian Federalism	9
Legislative Underrepresentation and Executive Dominance: Why Powerful States Accept Legislative Malapportionment	9
Precolonial Legacies in Postcolonial Politics: Representation and Redistribution in Decentralized States, by Martha Wilfahrt	7
Nationalism, Secessionism, and Autonomy, by André Lecours	7
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
Navigating Conflicting Incentives: Discursive Strategies of Political Parties in Germany’s Cooperative Federalism	6
Laboratories of Bureaucracy: How Bureaucrats Learn across States in Setting Early Childhood Education Standards	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
Fiscal Federalism, ARPA, and the Politics of Repair	5
Paradiplomacy in Hard Times: Cooperation and Confrontation in Subnational U.S.–China Relations	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 (re)making of local boundaries in African and European federal systems: Arguments and intergovernmental dynamics	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

In Memoriam: Richard P. Nathan	4
Federal Judges, States Legislators, and State Voting Rights Rollback	4
Correction to: Paradiplomacy in Hard Times: Cooperation and Confrontation in Subnational U.S.–China Relations	3
A Written Constitution for Quebec? edited by Léonid Sirota and Richard Albert	3
A Note from the Editors	3
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
Past Political Asymmetry and Present Public Opinion: How Has the Asymmetrical Federation of the EU Shaped Popular Opinion of Its Optimal Shape?	2
The Frontiers of Nullification and Anticommandeering: Federalism and Extrajudicial Constitutional Interpretation	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
Dividing Authority Three Ways: Federal–Tribal–State Relations afterOklahoma v. Castro-Huerta	2
The Emergence of the Second Amendment Sanctuary Movement: Partisan Federalism, Not White Protectionism	2
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
A Research Agenda for Regional and Local Government, Edited by Mark Callanan and John Loughlin	2
Public Opinion, Federalism, and Level of Governmental Intervention: Perceptions of Law Enforcement Response to the 2020 George Floyd Protests	2
Progressive States’ Rights: The Forgotten History of Federalism, by Sean Beienburg	2
Federalism, Intergovernmental Conflict, and the COVID-19 Crises in Latin America	2
State Pride and the Quality of Democracy in the American States	2
Explaining Defederalization in Ghana	2
The Correlates and Characteristics of American State Identity	1
Following in Footsteps or Marching Alone? How Institutional Differences Influence Renewable Energy Policy, by Srinivas C. Parinandi	1
Scrutinizing Relative Territorial Identity Measures	1
The Determinants of Taxation Innovation Policy in Spain’s Common Regime Autonomous Communities (1986–2018)	1
American Federalism and Health Policy Spillovers: Insights from the Opioid Crisis	1
The State of American Federalism 2023–2024: Judicialization of Gridlocked Politics	1
Lights Out: Political and Economic Determinants of Electricity Shutoffs in the United States	1
Sleeping Dogs: Quebec and the Stabilization of Canadian Federalism after 1995, Andrew McDougall	1
Between Decentralization and Asymmetry: Explaining Preferences toward the Division of Power in Canada	1
Advanced Introduction to Federalism by Alain-G. Gagnon and Arjun Tremblay	1
Why States Preempt City Ordinances: The Case of Workers’ Rights Laws	1
A Regional System under Tight-Knit Elite Rule: The Last Attempt to Introduce Decentralization in Early Italy	1
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Election Administration, Voting Options, and Turnout in the 2020 US Election	1
Bringing Capacity Back In: Paradiplomacy and Sub-State Government Internationalization in the Global Economy	1
Reviewers for Volume 53	1
The Secret Guam Study. Howard P. Willens with Dirk A. Ballendorf	1
Dual versus Administrative Federalism: Origins and Evolution of Two Models	1
Does Home Rule Still Matter? Perceptions and Legal Constraints in Green Public Procurement	1
Cords of Affection: Constructing Constitutional Union in Early American History, by Emily Pears	1
The State of American Federalism 2022–2023: Escalating Culture Wars in the States	1
Seeing Red and Blue: Assessing How Americans Understand Geographic Polarization, Secession, and the Value of Federalism	1
Does Decentralization Affect the Size of Public Intervention? Evidence from Anti-Covid Public Policies	1
Correction to: The Frontiers of Nullification and Anticommandeering: Federalism and Extrajudicial Constitutional Interpretation	1
Hidden Laws: How State Constitutions Stabilize American Politics, by Robinson Woodward-Burns	1
In Memoriam: Stephen L. Schechter	1