What Determines the Responses of Multi-Level States to Crises? A Set-Theoretical Analysis of Evidence from the Covid-19 Pandemic.
The institutionalist literature on public policy in federations cannot account for the variation in how multi-level states handled the Covid-19 pandemic. To explain these differences, this article presents a typology of policy responses and develops a framework that outlines their determinants. It a...
| Publicado en: | Publius: The Journal of Federalism Vol. 56; no. 2; pp. 410 - 444 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Spring2026
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