Fomenters of Fiasco: Explaining the Failed Policy Response to COVID-19 in the United States

Policy responses to COVID-19 in the United States have been constrained by electoral calculi that run from the executive to the legislative branch of the central government and thence also to the federal bureaucracy and the states. The policy outcomes are as disappointing for US democracy as they ar...

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Main Author: Lawrence D. Brown
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: OpenEdition 2021-10-01
Series:International Review of Public Policy
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/irpp/2150
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Fomenters of Fiasco: Explaining the Failed Policy Response to COVID-19 in the United States
International Review of Public Policy
COVID19
US Policy
electoral connection
title Fomenters of Fiasco: Explaining the Failed Policy Response to COVID-19 in the United States
title_full Fomenters of Fiasco: Explaining the Failed Policy Response to COVID-19 in the United States
title_fullStr Fomenters of Fiasco: Explaining the Failed Policy Response to COVID-19 in the United States
title_full_unstemmed Fomenters of Fiasco: Explaining the Failed Policy Response to COVID-19 in the United States
title_short Fomenters of Fiasco: Explaining the Failed Policy Response to COVID-19 in the United States
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US Policy
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