Beyond Marble Cakes and Picket Fences: What U.S. Federalism Scholars Can Learn from Comparative Work

Scholarship on federalism seems to reside in two worlds: that of U.S. federalism scholars and that of comparative and non-U.S. scholars. There is little evidence of cross-fertilization of research across the two worlds—especially U.S. scholars reading and citing comparative federalism work. This article describes what U.S. scholars are missing and how U.S. scholarship might be enriched from tapping into comparative federalism research.