Resumen de Large scale but temporary: how the federal government’s responses to the great recession and Covid-19 (mostly) maintained continuity in american federalism

John Kincaid, J. Wesley Leckrone

• This article examines the effects that federal legislation designed to address the Great Recession and COVID-19 pandemic affected American federalism. Some other crises in American history have resulted in moves toward enduring centralization. Despite unprecedented federal spending, neither of the two major crises of the early twentyfirst century resulted in more power being concentrated permanently in Washington, DC. Rather, in an effort to pump money into the economy expeditiously, the federal government mostly followed a traditional model of funding stimulus, while leaving implementation to state and local governments.