What’s the most important issue that the 2016 presidential candidates won’t be talking about? A very good bet is the train wreck facing federal-state-local finances. There are lots of mega-issues on ...

Relations between American Indian tribes and state governments are poorly understood; they have been inaccurately portrayed as exclusively or increasingly conflictual. This study balances such ...

Events in recent weeks have led to plenty of squabbles about issues generally relating to federalism and intergovernmental relations. Most prominent, of course, has been the back and forth between ...

Our purpose is three-fold. First, we summarize some of the core insights from both classic and more recent papers in the literature on the role of intergovernmental grants in systems of fiscal ...

Beyond its effects on public health strategies, economic management policies as well as attitudes towards poverty alleviation and social inequality, the raging coronavirus pandemic will also have ...

Intergovernmental relations in Spain have undergone a significant transformation during the past 22 years. With the transition to democracy, Spain has developed from a unitary-centralist into a ...

Michael S. Sparer ([email protected]) is a professor in and chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, in New York City. To ...

Reps. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., and Rob Bishop, R-Utah, on Tuesday introduced legislation aimed at improving the relationships between federal, state and local governments by bringing back an evolved ...

The nature of centre-state financial relations has undergone significant transformations with institutional and systemic ...

Throughout the recent federal election campaign, political leaders outlined their vision for Canada’s future. Responding to a dramatically changing geopolitical climate, party platforms contained ...

David B. Walker, a former director of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations and a director of the master’s in public affairs program at the University of Connecticut, died Sept.