State preemption laws strictly limit local governments from regulating beyond their borders. Local governments, however, face a broad spectrum of challenges which cannot be confined to municipal borders. These challenges freely flow in and out of many local jurisdictions at the same time. The...

The present paper is part of an unpublished book divided into three interrelated manuscripts that analyze the collapse of the Sudan. The current paper concludes that the decision of the International Criminal Court to arrest President Bashir triggered a process for the disintegration of an...

New Hampshire bills itself as a highly attractive state to individuals and businesses seeking to relocate. This claim is made in part because of its tax structure and its lack of individual income or sales taxes. Taxes have been, and continue to be, a central item of debate each election cycle...

This paper reports developments of a longitudinal exploratory study on the Turkish local e-governments between September 2005 and December 2006. 3,228 Turkish local governments constitute the sampling framework of this study. The aim is to give a recent portrait and progress of the Turkish local...

Governors’ responses to the severe threats to public health posed by COVID-19 have not been uniform. We are among the first to provide empirical analyses to document to what extent stay at home orders or shelter in place orders were issued differently based on political, business and...

Objective - Local Government Units (LGUs) play a significant role in the development of their constituents. Basic services should be their main priority in order to implement these services to a high standard. Hence, this study aims to assess the level of implementation of basic services in San...

Professor Fershee responds to Professor David B. Spence’s article about local hydraulic fracturing bans: The Political Economy of Local Vetoes, 93 Texas L. Rev. 351 (2015). Professor Spence notes that the shale oil and gas debate provides an example of “an age-old political problem that the...

German Abstract: In Estland ist nach der Wiederherstellung der Selbstständigkeit, im Laufe des letzten Vierteljahrhunderts sehr viel über die Verwaltungsreform gesprochen worden. Die bisher einzige erfolgreiche Verwaltungsreform ist in den Jahren 1989-1993 umgesetzt worden. Die...

On January 1, 2013, the federal estate tax regime in effect from 2001 to 2012 is scheduled to revert to its pre-2001 structure. A 35% rate will soar to a 55% rate. A $5 million exemption will plummet to $1 million. Some deductions and credits enacted in 2001 will disappear while others repealed...