Learning from Crisis: COVID-19 Agenda and Policy Change and What it Means for a Future Research Agenda
The COVID-19 pandemic and crisis rapidly changed the public and policymaking agendas for governments worldwide. COVID-19 highlighted failures and problems associated with public health preparedness, economic vulnerability, emergency response protocols, and sector-specific issues in healthcare, educa...
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| Lingua: | Anglais |
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International Review of Public Policy
2025
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| Accesso online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Riassunto: | The COVID-19 pandemic and crisis rapidly changed the public and policymaking agendas for governments worldwide. COVID-19 highlighted failures and problems associated with public health preparedness, economic vulnerability, emergency response protocols, and sector-specific issues in healthcare, education, and beyond. This increased attention to COVID-19 – and pandemic response broadly – led to significant emergency policy action by governors and public health agencies across U.S. states. We ask whether this uptick in attention resulted in meaningful policy change. This paper constitutes a modest first effort to assess the extent to which the increase in agenda attention resulted in substantive changes to subnational public health institutions, thereby allowing them to better respond to the next pandemic. We specifically focus on U.S. state legislative policymaking because state governments retain the primary constitutional authority for responding to public health crises like COVID-19. Our analysis includes all legislation enacted by state legislatures in 2020 and 2021, building on prior work that examined emergency orders issued in 2020 across states. We aspire not only to track important changes in policy but also to spotlight potentially fruitful research initiatives that spring from our findings. |
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