American federal systems and COVID-19 : responses to a complex intergovernmental problem / edited by B. Guy Peters (University of Pittsburgh, USA), Eduardo Grin (Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil), Fernando Luiz Abrucio (Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Peters, B. Guy, editor.

Grin, Eduardo, editor.

Abrucio, Fernando Luiz, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Federal government--America.

Federal government.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Political aspects--America.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (169 pages)

Place of Publication:

Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing Limited, [2021]

Summary:

The COVID-19 pandemic struck as a global problem, a virus spreading without respect for territorial boundaries. National responses to mitigate the multi-dimensional effects provoked by the pandemic have been varied. What factors within federal systems could be related to the success or failure of their attempts to face this crisis? How have political leaders been performing in the intergovernmental arena, along with subnational levels of government? American Federal Systems and COVID-19 analyzes five American federations - Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and United States - and how they have responded to a complex intergovernmental problem (CIP) such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Using an analytical model based on two dimensions - institutional design and political agency - this study shows how the combination between federal design and political leadership stances can develop different policy responses to face the challenge of the COVID-19. American Federal Systems and COVID-19 expands the current theoretical and empirical lens and learn what effective and ineffective actions implemented, giving essential insight to face boundary-spanning intergovernmental complex problems whose effects are very unlikely to cease anytime soon.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Federal systems: Institutional design and political agency / Eduardo Grin, B. Guy Peters, and Fernando Luiz Abrucio

Chapter 2. American federalism in the pandemic / B. Guy Peters

Chapter 3. Argentine federalism in the Covid-19 pandemic / Daniel Alberto Cravacuore

Chapter 4. Brazilian federalism in the pandemic / Fernando Luiz Abrucio, Eduardo Grin, and Catarina Ianni Segatto

Chapter 5. Canadian federalism in the pandemic / Catarina Ianni Segatto, Daniel Béland, and Shannon Dinan

Chapter 6. Mexican federalism in the pandemic / Edgar E Ramirez de la Cruz and D. Pavel Gómez Granados

Chapter 7. Conclusions / Eduardo Grin, B. Guy Peters, and Fernando Luiz Abrucio.

Notes:

Includes index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9781801171656

1801171653

9781801171670

180117167X

OCLC:

1272993123