1. Liberty, Markets, and Federalism --;2. Competitive Federalism in Institutional Perspective --;3. Taxes, Grants, and Porkbarrel Politics: The Case for Decentralizing the Power to Tax --;4. Fiscal Competition in a Federal System --;5. Immobile Taxation in a World of Mobility --;6. Fiscal Vacations and Federalism in Western Europe: A Search for Sovereignty --;7. Federalism and Commercial Regulation --;8. Redistribution in a Federal System: Lessons from Welfare Reform --;9. Education: The Path from Centralization to Privatization --;10. Federalism and Agricultural and Resource Policy --;11. Federalism and the Protection of Property --;12. Legislation and Adjudication in a Federal Republic.
Federalism has generally been characterized as a system of government that is friendly to liberty. By contrast, in a unitary form of government citizens face only one government with independent authority to tax and regulate.