Evanston Public Library trustees have an intergovernmental agreement with the city at the top of their wish list as they ...

In 2020 and 2021, Congress allocated more than $4 trillion to pull the country through unprecedented national public health and economic crises in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. To combat the ...

Daniel Baracskay, Ph.D. Carol M. Glen, Ph.D. Neena Banerjee, Ph.D. Nandan K. Jha, Ph.D. Robert (Sherman) Yehl, Ph.D. So often, the notions of federalism ...

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 ...

Alex Meyer will join the White House as a Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. Meyer previously served as the Deputy Political ...

In recent decades, the decentralization of resources and decision-making has strengthened the role of subnational governments (SNGs) in promoting growth and shared prosperity. On the revenue side, ...

China is the most decentralized country in the world in terms of expenditures shares, with subnational governments responsible for 85 percent of government spending. Limited revenue autonomy and ...

What instruments can governments deploy to prevent fiscal crises in decentralized fiscal systems? This analysis reveals that good public sector institutions, controls by the central government over ...

Joseph Bak-Coleman is an associate research scholar at the Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security, School of Journalism, Columbia University, New York City, New York, USA. Jennifer ...

Fabrice Lambert is a climatology researcher at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and the Center for Climate and Resilience Research in Santiago, Chile. As we approach the United Nations COP ...