Video Quiz: Why States Across the U.S. Are Reopening

As the nation moved out of a quasi-national lockdown, states pursued aggressively different economic policies, each of which was enabled by the Constitutional provisions of federalism.

Please watch the video and then complete a short quiz.

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. Which of the following would most represent the idea of policy diffusion, as applied to the coronavirus example?

. According to the video, which of the following illustrates the challenge of devolution?

. The response to coronavirus was not entirely political and at least partially driven by state-level characteristics, as evidenced by

. Before state re-openings, the national government sought to encourage states to develop restrictive economic policies by directing stimulus checks to the American people and earmarking federal funds to expand unemployment benefits at the state level. This most closely resembles federal control of state policy using

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