The COVID-19 crisis is about physical infrastructure too

Download the paper here (open access): https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/may-2021/the-covid-19-crisis-is-about-physical-infrastructure-too/ The role of infrastructure ownership and the ability for governments to respond quickly has been missing from the pandemic analysis. Instead, federalism scholars have tended to focus on the division of powers and fiscal federalism. Yet infrastructure is critical to state capacity and state power within federations. We coin the term "infrastructural policy security" to describe the importance of a country's infrastructural asset profile for addressing its most pressing and basic policy problems and concerns.