Center for the Study of Federalism (CSF) at the Meyner Center for the Study of State & Local Government
The Center for the Study of Federalism (CSF) is a nonpartisan, interdisciplinary research and education institution dedicated to supporting and advancing scholarship and public understanding of federal theories, principles, institutions, and processes as practical means of organizing power in free societies. The Center is a founding member of IACFS. The Center’s best-known product is Publius: The Journal of Federalism. The Center has attracted diverse scholars and students to participate in its activities, generated many publications, and organized many conferences, workshops, and teacher institutes on diverse themes, especially American federalism and intergovernmental relations, comparative federalism, American political culture, covenant and politics, civil communities, cities of the American prairie, urbanization and suburbanization, human rights, and state constitutions.