Muting Science: Input Overload Versus Scientific Advice in Swiss Policy Making During the Covid-19 Pandemic [0.03%]
新冠大流行期间的瑞士政策制定中的信息超载与科学建议失效现象分析
Klaus Armingeon,Fritz Sager
Klaus Armingeon
This article explores why the Swiss Federal Council and the Swiss Federal Parliament were reluctant to follow the majority views of the scientific epidemiological community at the beginning of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. We pr...
Partnering with Agents: How the Covid-19 Pandemic changed Relations between the UK Government and Public Service Contractors [0.03%]
新冠疫情改变的英国政府与其公共服务承包商之间的关系
Benjamin Meggitt
Benjamin Meggitt
The contracting out of public goods and services has become a central feature of the UK's state machinery, with more than £350 billion spent annually on services ranging from rubbish collection to building submarines. In response to the Co...
Trust, Governance, and the Covid-19 Pandemic: an Explainer using Longitudinal Data from the United Kingdom [0.03%]
英国 longitudinal 数据解析：信任、治理与新冠大流行的关系
James Weinberg
James Weinberg
Crises like the Covid-19 pandemic place an added premium on the social contract underpinning principal-agent relations in representative democracies, which relies, at a fundamental level, on conditional trust judgements by those without pow...
Jethro Butler,Tom Sorell
Jethro Butler
Libertarian ideas of self-ownership and the priority of bodily autonomy have featured prominently in the political debate over vaccination programmes and the justifiability or otherwise of restricting the liberty of the unvaccinated. In thi...
Tom Sorell,Jethro Butler
Tom Sorell
Opposition to vaccines is not a new phenomenon, but positions once associated with traditional religious or conservative stances have given way to some highly disparate views that transcend traditional left/right/religious divisions. This a...
Post Brexit and Post-Covid: Reflections on the Contemporary Conservative Party [0.03%]
脱欧和疫情之后：对当代保守党的反思
Gillian Peele
Gillian Peele
This article analyses the changing character of the contemporary Conservative Party. It argues that the period since the Brexit referendum has seen the creation of a new politics in which voter alignments have shifted, and that the experien...
Parliament's One-Year Review of the Coronavirus Act 2020: Another Example of Parliament's Marginalisation in the Covid-19 Pandemic [0.03%]
《2020冠状病毒法案》的议会一年回顾：又一个在新冠疫情中议会边缘化的例子
Daniella Lock,Pablo Grez Hidalgo,Fiona de Londras
Daniella Lock
In this article, we consider the one-year review (OYR) by Parliament of temporary powers in the Coronavirus Act 2020 (CVA). The OYR stands as a key concession on the part of the UK government to enable scrutiny of Covid-19 law making, after...
English Devolution and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Governing Dilemmas in the Shadow of the Treasury [0.03%]
英格兰地方政府与新冠肺炎疫情：财政部阴影下的治理困境
Sam Warner,David Richards,Diane Coyle et al.
Sam Warner et al.
This article explores the question of devolution in the light of the Covid-19 pandemic's impact on English local government. Criticism of the government's handling of the crisis is widespread and tends to focus on the highly centralised nat...
Kieran Maguire
Kieran Maguire
This article looks at the financial performance and position of English professional football before Covid-19 and the impact that the pandemic has had on the industry. It analyses revenue streams in different divisions, the dependency that ...
Government Communications, Political Trust and Compliant Social Behaviour: The Politics of Covid-19 in Britain [0.03%]
政府沟通，政治信任与服从的社交行为：英国新冠肺炎政治
Kenneth Newton
Kenneth Newton
It is commonly said that the lockdowns and social distancing necessary to control coronavirus pandemics will only work if the general population trusts its government, believes the information it provides, and has confidence in its policies...