Describe the main responsibilities or duties of state governments

Explanation:

Under the new design, the role of the state government is to promote the state economy and to take operational control over most government programs for individuals, such as social programs and risk management. ... Thus the state governments would face more difficult problems than currently.

I understand the "postwar" here to mean "after WW2".
After this war, France was capitalist, while Czechoslovakia found itself in the socialist camp, lead by the Soviet Union. Connected to this is the fact that France, like many other capitalist states was member of NATO and Czechoslovakia of the Warsaw Pact.