2020
DOI: 10.1080/14494035.2020.1783793
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Abstract: Federalism plays a foundational role in structuring public expectations about how the United States will respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, as both an unprecedented public-health crisis and an economic recession. As in prior crises, state governments are expected to be primary sites of governing authority, especially when it comes to immediate public-health needs, while it is assumed that the federal government will supply critical countercyclical measures to stabilize the economy and make up for major revenue … Show more

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“…The US, by contrast, is understood conventionally as a federalist, democratic system that prioritizes local autonomy and values engagement by the private sector and the civil society (Béland et al 2017;Homsy et al 2019). Although the federal government has expanded its authority over the past decades in certain policy areas, the contested relationship between federal and state governments, coupled with partisan politics and declined public trust in government, often complicated the effort to achieve coordinated responses to transboundary policy issues including major crises (Béland et al 2017;Kettl 2020;Rocco et al 2020).…”
Section: China and The Us: National Political And Institutional Contextsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The US, by contrast, is understood conventionally as a federalist, democratic system that prioritizes local autonomy and values engagement by the private sector and the civil society (Béland et al 2017;Homsy et al 2019). Although the federal government has expanded its authority over the past decades in certain policy areas, the contested relationship between federal and state governments, coupled with partisan politics and declined public trust in government, often complicated the effort to achieve coordinated responses to transboundary policy issues including major crises (Béland et al 2017;Kettl 2020;Rocco et al 2020).…”
Section: China and The Us: National Political And Institutional Contextsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The COVID-19 crisis poses unprecedented challenges to national and subnational governments (Kettl 2020;Mei 2020;Migone 2020;Rocco et al 2020;Yan et al 2020). Subnational governments -particularly provincial or state governments -play key roles systems (authoritarianism vs. democracy), but both are large countries with substantial territorial diversity and have moved toward a multi-level governance approach in various policy areas (Béland et al 2017;Homsy et al 2019).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Among the jurisdictions in this group we find countries like Sweden (Pierre 2020) and the United States (Rocco, B eland, and Waddan 2020) where the choice was to be reactive and others, like Singapore, where failure to protect migrant workers, who live in cramped conditions and tend to be "forgotten" by official policy, from infection seem to have driven the results (Woo 2020) (See Chart 10).…”
Section: High Rate Of Infectionsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…First, Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives were uninterested in several major policy alternatives that would have relieved fiscal pressure on the states, including measures to provide temporary emergency insurance coverage through the fully federalized Medicare program as well as a program to limit unemployment through financing a new "paycheck guarantee". Second, because the US federal system does not provide a formal venue for federal-state negotiation, intergovernmental organizations found it difficult to coordinate their action and faced an intensely competitive lobbying environment (Rocco et al 2020a). Third, partisan polarization and divided control of government largely preempted the possibility of a broadly shared definition of health finance as a policy problem.…”
Section: Covid-19 Federalism and Health Care Financingmentioning
confidence: 99%