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Germany's Corona Crisis: The State of Emergency and Policy(Mis)learning
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Abstract This article analyzes Germany's policy-making in response to the Corona crisis between January 2020 and March 2021. Two theoretical perspectives are advanced. The first concerns how the government's imposition of a 'state of emergency' affects liberal democratic policy-making resulting in the closur... mehr
This article analyzes Germany's policy-making in response to the Corona crisis between January 2020 and March 2021. Two theoretical perspectives are advanced. The first concerns how the government's imposition of a 'state of emergency' affects liberal democratic policy-making resulting in the closure of deliberation in favor of top-down imposition. The second perspective looks at different types of policy learning under crisis conditions. The central thesis is that Germany's emergency regime failed to facilitate effective policy-making since it closed down venues in which policy learning could occur. Thus, the state of emergency combined authoritarianism and inefficiency. A variety of explanations are advanced to clarify causes for the sluggishness of the German federal, regional, and local government levels to meet Corona-related challenges.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Epidemie; Gesundheitspolitik; Krisenmanagement; Politikumsetzung; Föderalismus
Klassifikation
Gesundheitspolitik
Freie Schlagwörter
Corona virus; emergency regime; policy learning; lockdown
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2021
Seitenangabe
S. 29-75
Zeitschriftentitel
Journal of the Korean-German Association for Social Sciences / Zeitschrift der Koreanisch-Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sozialwissenschaften, 31 (2021) 1
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)