The purpose of this paper is to assess whether expenditure decentralization has contributed to weakening fiscal performance in Europe. Using a panel of EU15 countries for the period 1995-2011, we estimate three econometric models and ask the following questions: (1) does the form of spending...

The paper discusses the reasons and possible resolutions of the contradictions in the Hungarian local government system, and proposes methods to resolve them. The nature of the Hungarian system cannot be described by classical normative theories of fiscal federalism. The operation of Hungarian...

This Article exposes a misapplication of federalism as the driving force behind the Supreme Court's extreme narrowing of the 42 U.S.C. § 1983 remedy for beneficiaries of federal-state cooperative spending programs. Originally, the Court applied a presumption, via § 1983's straightforward...

The most pressing issues faced by the regions of the North Caucasus in 2020 were associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. In the North Caucasian Republics, particular aspects of the social organization and economic structure of these subjects of the Russian Federation had an impact on the course...

There is great fragility in the maintenance of civil discourse. History tells us that it can, and will, fracture, counseling vigilance in its defense. And, that commitment requires revisiting from time to time valuable insights from great minds of the past who have pondered why civil discourse...

The most important aspect of American federalism embodied in the Constitution is the constitutional facilitation of a national free trade zone known as the United States wherein each independent unit is disabled from erecting barriers to trade under what is popularly termed the Interstate...

The Sherman Act establishes free competition as the rule governing interstate trade. Banning private restraints cannot ensure that competitive markets allocate the nation’s resources. State laws can pose identical threats to free markets, posing an obstacle to achieving Congress’s goal to...

El artículo pretende demostrar, a través de la revisión de tres estudios de caso, que los gobiernos locales de Latinoamérica vienen desarrollando interesantes programas de innovación y que éstos se sustentan en el modelo de Nueva Gerencia Pública (NGP). Para lograr ese objetivo, se...

The paper outlines the role of e-government as the main action in order to reform Romanian public services. E-government is a critical constituent of the new information and knowledge-based society and in the last few years had an exponential evolution at the European Unions’ level. The...

While local governments often implement equivalent numbers of sustainability programs, they likely utilize different strategies to design them. We posit that some local governments pursue more of an exploration strategy, by experimenting with a broad range of sustainability issues and policy...