State governments in confronting Covid-19

A new protagonism in Brazilian federalism

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5333533
AutoresAndré Luis Bonifácio De Carvalho (0000-0003-0328-6588, Universidade Federal da Paraíba), Edjavane Rocha (0000-0002-7854-5751, Universidade Federal da Paraíba), Roberta Fonseca Sampaio (0000-0002-6116-6683, Governo do Estado da Bahia, Brasil; Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Brasil), Assis Mafort Ouverney (0000-0002-8581-3777, Departamento de Ciências Sociais (DCS), Brasil)
Año2022
Volumen46
Númerospe1
Páginas62-77
Fecha de publicación2022-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSaúde em Debate (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0103-1104 • E-ISSN: 2358-2898
EditorialFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/0103-11042022e104i
OpenAlexW4225333493
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas12

The Federal Constitution of 1988 established a model of cooperative federalism seeking to create institutional bases to functionally articulate the performance of the federal government, states, and cities in the construction of such strategies, especially in critical situations that demand a response from the expressive mobilization of resources, actors, and institutions. The objective of this article is to present an analysis of the evolution of the actions developed by the governors of eleven Brazilian states to face the Covid-19 pandemic, seeking to identify the tendency of their actions in face of the pressures generated in the dynamics of intergovernmental relations. A total of 701 decrees published from February to October 2020, considered the first wave of the pandemic, were organised and analysed based on three axes: measures to improve health policies and services; employment and income protection policies; administrative and social regulation measures and territorial management. The results show the existence of a leading role of governors in face of the lack of coordination of the federal government, with emphasis on the exercise of constitutional competences through measures of horizontal cooperation, regional and associative learning practice, and organisation of social intervention measures that played an important role in the fight against the pandemic

Constitution · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Face (sociological concept) · Federalism · Government (linguistics) · Pandemic · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Brazilian Legal Issues · Law · Public Administration · Public Health in Brazil · Social and Political Issues