The Mask Is Off

M. Ernita Joaquin and Thomas J. Greitens ()
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M. Ernita Joaquin: San Francisco State University
Thomas J. Greitens: Central Michigan University

Chapter Chapter 2 in American Administrative Capacity, 2021, pp 15-40 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In how many ways could a government fail in anticipating and mitigating a public health crisis? The coronavirus pandemic that emerged from a continent away made 2020 the deadliest year in American history. When future historians look back to the devastation the pandemic wrought on the land and its long-term social, political, and economic fallout, they will find a frayed capacity behind the federal government’s response. In this chapter, the chaos and debility are shown belying the notion of a government led by an accountable and energetic executive. Instead, a superpower’s failures in several dimensions prevented it from heading off the pandemic’s most brutal effects, even as its unitary executive commanded tremendous influence on the stage. Bureaucratic, democratic, and civic resilience were all at once put to the test.

Keywords: Pandemic; Politicization; Deconstruction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-80564-7_2

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