Past Events
October 2019
Jenna Bednar: Federalism as a Collective Problem-Solving Mechanism
4:30pm, October 8th, 2019
Strand Building S2.31
Democracies set policy through broad input channeled through institutions. Those institutions shape the scope of the information that is generated by the population. When federalism is robust, states have sufficient independence to express their diverse perspectives, knowledge, and expertise on policymaking, contributing to the richness of the information space.