Policy Style and The US Policy Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Rebuttal to Lawrence D. Brown’s Fomenters of Fiasco

Through the lens of policy style that we respectfully disagree with Professor Brown’s assessment of the United States’ botched COVID-19 pandemic response as being exclusively or even primarily explained by electoral concerns. Although we agree that the electoral concerns of many actors in the respon...

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In:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/irpp,
Main Authors: Taylor, Kristin, DeLeo, Rob, Birkland, Thomas, Anderson, Deserai
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Language:Anglais
Published: International Review of Public Policy 2024
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Online Access:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Summary:Through the lens of policy style that we respectfully disagree with Professor Brown’s assessment of the United States’ botched COVID-19 pandemic response as being exclusively or even primarily explained by electoral concerns. Although we agree that the electoral concerns of many actors in the response were important, reducing every aspect of the botched policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic to an electoral calculus is far too narrow. It overlooks important factors, particularly the interaction between public trust in government and a country’s policy style during times of crisis.