Federal Institutions and Strategic Policy Responses to COVID-19 Pandemic
dc.contributor.author | Shvetsova, O | |
dc.contributor.author | VanDusky-Allen, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Zhirnov, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Adeel, AB | |
dc.contributor.author | Catalano, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Catalano, O | |
dc.contributor.author | Giannelli, F | |
dc.contributor.author | Muftuoglu, E | |
dc.contributor.author | Rosenberg, D | |
dc.contributor.author | Sezgin, MH | |
dc.contributor.author | Zhao, T | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-03-21T11:11:38Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-06-22 | |
dc.date.updated | 2022-03-20T09:26:49Z | |
dc.description.abstract | This essay examines the policy response of the federal and regional governments in federations to the COVID-19 crisis. We theorize that the COVID-19 policy response in federations is an outcome of strategic interaction among the federal and regional incumbents in the shadow of their varying accountability for health and the repercussions from the disruptive consequences of public health measures. Using the data from the COVID-19 Public Health Protective Policy Index Project, we study how the variables suggested by our theory correlate with the overall stringency of public health measures in federations as well as the contribution of the federal government to the making of these policies. Our results suggest that the public health measures taken in federations are at least as stringent as those in non-federations, and there is a cluster of federations on which a bulk of crisis policy making is carried by subnational governments. We find that the contribution of the federal government is, on average, higher in parliamentary systems; it appears to decline with the proximity of the next election in presidential republics, and to increase with the fragmentation of the legislative party system in parliamentary systems. Our analysis also suggests that when the federal government carries a significant share of responsibility for healthcare provision, it also tends to play a higher role in taking non-medical steps in response to the pandemic. | en_GB |
dc.format.extent | 631363- | |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 3, article 631363 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2021.631363 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/129105 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0002-2978-8239 (Zhirnov, Andrei) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Frontiers Media | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2021 Shvetsova, VanDusky-Allen, Zhirnov, Adeel, Catalano, Catalano, Giannelli, Muftuoglu, Rosenberg, Sezgin and Zhao. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. | en_GB |
dc.subject | federalism | en_GB |
dc.subject | political institutions | en_GB |
dc.subject | public health | en_GB |
dc.subject | COVID-19 | en_GB |
dc.subject | health institutions | en_GB |
dc.title | Federal Institutions and Strategic Policy Responses to COVID-19 Pandemic | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2022-03-21T11:11:38Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2673-3145 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Frontiers Media via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.description | Data Availability Statement: The original contributions presented in the study are included in the article/Supplementary Material; further inquiries can be directed to the corresponding author. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2673-3145 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Frontiers in Political Science | en_GB |
dc.relation.ispartof | Frontiers in Political Science, 3 | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2021-05-31 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2021-06-22 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2022-03-21T11:09:45Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2022-03-21T11:11:47Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
refterms.dateFirstOnline | 2021-06-22 |
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