This article uses Puerto Rico's ongoing financial crisis as an opportunity to explore complex policy issues that arise when a federalist regime's central government must decide whether – and how – to assist a struggling subnational government entity. It first describes Puerto Rico's dramatic...

This paper focuses on the organizational, structural, financial, and staffing aspects of existing state Advisory Commissions on Intergovernmental Relations agencies, and on identifying those factors which - at least from the perception of agencies and agency directors themselves - most...