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Burden-Shifting, Encroaching, and Shirking: Federalism in a Pandemic Crisis.

Responding to a novel pandemic took many governments unaware, and especially in federal countries the interplay among executives at different levels proved difficult and illustrated the inherent tensions in federations. Drawing on data covering the temporal evolution of the epidemiological, economic...

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Published in:Publius: The Journal of Federalism Vol. 56; no. 2; pp. 444 - 475
Main Authors: Eichenauer, Vera Z, Hug, Simon, Sciarini, Pascal, Sturm, Jan-Egbert, Varone, Frédéric
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Spring2026
Subjects:
Switzerland
Responsibility
Intervention (Federal government)
Provincial governments
Federal government
Pandemics
Intergovernmentalism
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