European Union and the United States have experienced some of the most sever outbreaks of Covid-19. Paper investigates the EU and US divisions of power and suggest that due to the relative advantages and disadvantages of centralized federal responses and decentralized state responses, actions...

The paper by Tannenwald examines the recent debate on devolution of fiscal responsibilities from the U.S. federal government to the States. Over the last 70 years, the share of federal spending out of total government outlays doubled, reaching 61 per cent. This trend appears inconsistent with...