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COVID-19 and the policy sciences: initial reactions and perspectives

The world is in the grip of a crisis that stands unprecedented in living memory. The COVID-19 pandemic is urgent, global in scale, and massive in impacts. Following Harold D. Lasswell’s goal for the policy sciences to offer insights into unfolding phenomena, this commentary draws on the lessons of t...

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Autores principales: Weible, Christopher M., Nohrstedt, Daniel, Cairney, Paul, Carter, David P., Crow, Deserai A., Durnová, Anna P., Heikkila, Tanya, Ingold, Karin, McConnell, Allan, Stone, Diane
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7165254/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32313308
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11077-020-09381-4
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Cairney, Paul
Carter, David P.
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Heikkila, Tanya
Ingold, Karin
McConnell, Allan
Stone, Diane
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description The world is in the grip of a crisis that stands unprecedented in living memory. The COVID-19 pandemic is urgent, global in scale, and massive in impacts. Following Harold D. Lasswell’s goal for the policy sciences to offer insights into unfolding phenomena, this commentary draws on the lessons of the policy sciences literature to understand the dynamics related to COVID-19. We explore the ways in which scientific and technical expertise, emotions, and narratives influence policy decisions and shape relationships among citizens, organizations, and governments. We discuss varied processes of adaptation and change, including learning, surges in policy responses, alterations in networks (locally and globally), implementing policies across transboundary issues, and assessing policy success and failure. We conclude by identifying understudied aspects of the policy sciences that deserve attention in the pandemic’s aftermath.
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spelling pubmed-71652542020-04-20 COVID-19 and the policy sciences: initial reactions and perspectives Weible, Christopher M. Nohrstedt, Daniel Cairney, Paul Carter, David P. Crow, Deserai A. Durnová, Anna P. Heikkila, Tanya Ingold, Karin McConnell, Allan Stone, Diane Policy Sci Discussion and Commentary The world is in the grip of a crisis that stands unprecedented in living memory. The COVID-19 pandemic is urgent, global in scale, and massive in impacts. Following Harold D. Lasswell’s goal for the policy sciences to offer insights into unfolding phenomena, this commentary draws on the lessons of the policy sciences literature to understand the dynamics related to COVID-19. We explore the ways in which scientific and technical expertise, emotions, and narratives influence policy decisions and shape relationships among citizens, organizations, and governments. We discuss varied processes of adaptation and change, including learning, surges in policy responses, alterations in networks (locally and globally), implementing policies across transboundary issues, and assessing policy success and failure. We conclude by identifying understudied aspects of the policy sciences that deserve attention in the pandemic’s aftermath. Springer US 2020-04-18 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7165254/ /pubmed/32313308 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11077-020-09381-4 Text en © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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Ingold, Karin
McConnell, Allan
Stone, Diane
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