Federal Responses to Three Twenty-First Century Crises: More Continuity than Centralization in American Federalism.

Analysis of the 2001 terrorist attacks, the 2007–2009 financial crisis, and the 2020–2022 COVID-19 crisis found more continuity than discontinuity in American federalism as the federal government mostly employed existing intergovernmental channels and grant programs to address the crises in mostly b...

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Published in:	Publius: The Journal of Federalism Vol. 56; no. 2; pp. 353 - 388
Main Author:	Kincaid, John
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA Spring2026
Subjects:	United States. Congress Federal government September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 COVID-19 pandemic Crisis management Intergovernmentalism Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009
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