The COVID-19 pandemic has provided an ultimate testing ground for evaluating the resilience and effectiveness of federal and decentralized systems. The article analyses how the Spanish asymmetrical system of decentralization has responded to the pandemic, focusing on the management developed by the sub-central governments (Autonomous Communities) during the first two waves of the pandemic in 2020. The research, which is both quantitative and qualitative, employs multidisciplinary tools and information sources, analyzing and linking fiscal and budgetary sources with the available statistics and information on health. Although the health, economic and social crisis caused by COVID-19 has highlighted appreciable shortcomings related to the decentralized model of territorial organization – in questions of both regional financing and health management – the research concludes that decentralization has not per se been a handicap when confronting the pandemic in Spain.

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权力下放：抗击 COVID-19 大流行的障碍？西班牙地方政府的反应


COVID-19 大流行为评估联邦和去中心化系统的弹性和有效性提供了最终的试验场。文章分析了西班牙非对称的分权制度如何应对疫情，重点关注2020年前两波疫情期间次中央政府（自治区）的管理情况。定性，采用多学科工具和信息来源，分析财政和预算来源，并将其与现有的卫生统计数据和信息联系起来。尽管 COVID-19 引发的健康、经济和社会危机凸显了与地区组织去中心化模式相关的明显缺陷——在区域融资和卫生管理问题上——但研究得出的结论是，去中心化本身并不是一个障碍。西班牙的疫情。