“…However, now its shared‐rule with the EU is more illuminating. Germany's type of federalism has been described in numerous ways that pinpoint to its structural distribution of competences as well as the outcomes of this distribution: as “cooperative federalism” (Börzel, ; Jeffery, ; Scharpf, 2008), as “interlocking federalism” (Scharpf, ), as “federal with a stable equilibrium” (Braun & Trein, ), “unitary federal state” (Schmidt, ), “entangled multi‐level policy‐making” (Kropp & Behnke, ), “joint federalism” (Biela et al., ), and “integrated federalism” (Hueglin & Fenna, ). Germany's federalism is characterized by the commitment to consensus and harmonization between the Länder and the federal government on policy formulation, and this is in contrast to other types of federalism, such as the United States (Behnke & Mueller, ), contributing to its problem‐solving capacity from a process angle.…”