Mission Assessing the New Federalism is a multi-year Urban Institute research project to analyze the devolution of responsibility for social programs from the federal government to the states. It focuses primarily on health care, cash assistance and other income benefits, family structure, child care, child welfare, immigration, and long-term care. Researchers monitor program changes and fiscal ...

AEI's Federalism Project explores opportunities to restore real federalism, limiting the national government's power and forcing states to compete ...

Vol. 15 No. 2-3 FEDERALISM AND INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY James M. Buchanan I have been both surprised and disturbed by two sources of opposition to efforts to move toward federalist structures in which political authority is divided between levels of government. I refer, first, to the opposition in Europe, mainly in Britain, to movements toward effective European federalism. Second, I refer to the ...