Few studies on federalism analyze the role of courts as safeguards of the federal arrangement, and those that do tend … may not enforce compliance with federalism. It argues that politicians of either level of government anticipate the …

Federalism is a constitutionalized version of multi-tier governance. Proponents of veto-player theory argue that a high … same time, with a higher number of governments under federalism, there are more chances that some of them will not comply … countries and apply standard panel data estimation techniques. Contrary to expectations, our results indicate that federalism is …