Policy performance in crisis: evaluating federalism and multi-party governance
研究了联邦制和多党制如何通过制度摩擦和集权程度影响政府危机管理能力，利用80个国家2020年新冠数据发现，区域自治权越高政策绩效越差。
Federalism and multiparty systems are two institutional arrangements that affect institutional friction and centralization, which shape governments’ capacities to manage crises. Evaluating the cross-national variation of these features enables us to assess how institutional friction and centralization impact policy performance during crisis. Using cumulative COVID-19 cases and deaths in 2020 across a range of 80 countries, we demonstrate that (1) higher levels of regional authority, i.e., federalism, are associated with reduced policy performance, (2) there are discernable between-group differences in performance for each of the institutional factors assessed, and (3) the relationship between policy punctuations and performance is not readily distinguishable in condensed periods of crisis.