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Analyzes and chronicles the significant and profound developments in federalism worldwide by seeking to understand the workings of established, emerging, and transitory federal arrangements; case studies of the US, Brazil, Canada, Nigeria, Switzerland, Russia, and Australia; 7 articles. Contents: American federalism on the horizon, by Ann O'M. Bowman; Brazil: the prospects of a center-constraining federation in a fragmented polity, by Celina Souza; Intergovernmental relations in Canada: the emergence of collaborative federalism, by David Cameron and Richard Simeon; Federalism in Nigeria's new democratic polity, by J. Isawa Elaigwu; Recent developments of Swiss federalism, by Thomas Fleiner; Central governing incapacity and the weakness of political parties: Russian democracy in disarray, by Kathryn Stoner-Weiss; Australian federalism: a prospective assessment, by Brian Galligan and John S. F. Wright.

This article analyzes municipal governments, capital spending, and revenue‐raising decisions between 1993 and 2000, an era of unprecedented economic growth. It finds that, as anticipated, greater‐than‐expected revenues allowed many cities to advance projects from their capital improvement plans to their capital budgets. Moreover, the article concludes that growth in cities' own‐source‐revenue‐generating capacity and transfers from carryover or ending balances from earlier years, rather than debt issuances and intergovernmental aid, seem to be the most important fuel for the remarkable growth rate in capital spending.

Pagano reviews 'Regional Politics: America in a Post-City Age' edited by H. V. Savitch and Ronald K. Vogel.