This is the introductory essay for the Economics of Federalism, a book edited by the authors and forthcoming in Edward … competitive federalism, stems from Tiebout's 1956 article. It focuses on the horizontal structure of federalism and examines … fiscal federalism, examines the vertical structure of federalism, or the division of public services and taxing power between …

federalism”: a division of power between the two levels of government in which subnational jurisdictions attempt to force the …, forced federalism limits states to a narrow set of enforcement decisions based on federally defined norms — far from the type …