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American Federal Systems and COVID-19

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American Federal Systems and COVID-19

Responses to a Complex Intergovernmental Problem

Edited by

B. Guy Peters

University of Pittsburgh, USA

Eduardo Grin

Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil

And

Fernando Luiz Abrucio

Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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About the Editors

B. Guy Peters is a Maurice Falk Professor of Government at the University of Pittsburgh. He was founding president of the International Public Policy Association and is now editor of the International Review of Public Policy. His recent publications include Administrative Traditions (Oxford University Press), Democratic Backsliding and Public Administration (Cambridge University Press), and The Advanced Introduction to Public Policy, 2nd ed. (Edward Elgar).

Eduardo Grin, PhD in Public Administration and Government, is Professor and Researcher at Fundação Getulio Vargas/São Paulo, Brazil, where he teaches on local government, federalism, and public policies. He has carried out research supported by institutions such as UNESCO, the British Embassy in Brazil, the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency, World Bank, and the Latin American Development Center for Administration. Currently he is a member of a research team from eight Latin American Universities dedicated to building the Regional Development Index (IDERE). Eduardo's major publications include Intermunicipal Cooperation in Metropolitan Regions in Brazil and Mexico – Does federalism matter? (Urban Affairs Review) and The Transaction Costs of Government Responses to the COVID-19 Emergency in Latin America (Public Administration Review).

Fernando Luiz Abrucio, PhD in Political Science, is Professor at São Paulo School of Business Administration/Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brasil, where he teaches Public Administration, Federalism, and Public Policies, especially Education Policy. Winner of the Moinho Santista Award as the best young Brazilian political scientist, Fernando was a visiting researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has had research projects supported by the Ford Foundation, World Bank, UNESCO, World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Inter-American Development Bank, and United Nations of Development Program (UNDP). He has also participated in international consulting programs in Latin America and Africa. Fernando's major publications include Federalism and Democratic Transitions: The New Politics of the Governors of Brazil (Publius) and Intermunicipal Cooperation in Metropolitan Regions in Brazil and Mexico – Does federalism matter? (Urban Affairs Review). He is also a political columnist for the Valor Econômico newspaper.

About the Contributors

Daniel Béland is Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada and the James McGill Professor in the Department of Political Science at McGill University. He has held visiting academic positions at Harvard University, the University of Bremen, the University of Nagoya, the University of Southern Denmark, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Professor Béland currently serves as Editor (French) of the Canadian Journal of Sociology and President of the Research Committee 19 (Poverty, Social Welfare, and Social Policy) of the International Sociological Association. A student of social and fiscal policy, he has published more than 160 peer-reviewed journal articles and 20 books, including Fiscal Federalism and Equalization Policy in Canada: Political and Economic Dimensions (2017; with André Lecours, Gregory P. Marchildon, Haizhen Mou, and Rose Olfert) and Universality and Social Policy in Canada (2019; edited with Gregory P. Marchildon and Michael J. Prince).

Daniel Alberto Cravacuore, PhD, is Professor of Local Government and Director of the Centre for Territorial Development, National University of Quilmes, Argentina. He has been the Director of the Ibero-American Network of Municipalist Academic Centres since 2016. He serves on numerous editorial boards and as an advisor to many of Latin America's national municipal associations. He is an Advisory Committee Member of the Latin American Federation of Cities, Municipalities and Associations, as well as Visiting Scholar at universities in Chile (University of Valparaiso), Colombia (University of Valley), Spain (Autonomous University of Madrid and University of Jaen), and the United States (Florida International University). He has carried out many international projects for the UNDP, UNICEF, ILO, EU, UCLG, and various national agencies (AECID, AMEXID, IDRC, SKL). He was the Former Editor of the Ibero-American Journal of Municipal Studies. He is also President of the International Foundation for Local Development (FINDEL).

Shannon Dinan is an Associate Professor in Public Finance in the Department of Political Science at Université Laval. As a public policy scholar, Professor Dinan's research interests include the comparative welfare state and labor market policy. She obtained her PhD from the Université de Montréal and was also a student fellow at the Centre d’études européennes et de politique comparée at Science Po Paris, the Department of Business and Politics at the Copenhagen Business School, and the Policy Network in London as part of her doctoral research.

D. Pavel Gómez Granados is a PhD Candidate and Research Assistant in the Public Administration Division at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) in Mexico City. He is currently a doctoral candidate in urbanism at Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM). His main interests are: urban sustainability, growth management, land use regulations, public management, and policy networks, as well as local governments, public services, and metropolitan governance.

Edgar E. Ramírez de la Cruz is Professor and Department Chair in the Public Administration Division at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) in Mexico City. He earned his PhD in Public Administration and Policy from the Askew School at Florida State University (FSU). His main interests are: urban sustainability, growth management, land use regulations, public management, and policy networks. Dr Ramírez is also a consultant for public, nonprofit, and private organizations in Mexico and the United States. Edgar Ramírez has published in academic outlets such as American Journal of Political Science, Public Administration Review (PAR), Urban Affairs Review, International Review of Public Administration, International Journal of Public Administration, and Housing Policy Debate. His most recent book on private capitalization of public goods was published last year in Mexico by CIDE. He is the Editor in Chief of Gestión y Política Pública and an Associate Editor of PAR. He was awarded in 2019 the International Public Administration Award by the American Society for Public Administration.

Catarina Ianni Segatto is a researcher at the Center for Metropolitan Studies and Professor of the Graduate Program in Public Policy at the Federal University of ABC. She was a postdoctoral researcher at Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Regina, and obtained her PhD in Public Administration and Government from the Getulio Vargas Foundation and was a visiting scholar at the University of Kent. Her research interests include discussing federalism, intergovernmental relations, and bureaucracy in social policies, especially education and health care.