Education Division Scholarship

Authors

Sean D. Jasso

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2023

Keywords

Public Policy Analysis, Strategy, Corona Virus, Covid-19, Cares Act

Abstract

From January 2020 to March 2021, the U.S. Government implemented five laws to marshal the federal response to the December 2019 outbreak of the Coronavirus. For context, past federal emergency policies include the New Deal $1T, World War II $4T, Hurricane Katrina $120B, AIDS $100B, $2.4T Iraq War, $90B Ukraine War, $44B Climate Change, Covid Vaccines $30B and, the largest emergency spending allocation in U.S. history, Covid-19 $4.1T. An evaluation of the government’s strategy to confront the pandemic is framed into two segments: legislative function – how the Congress mobilizes emergency legislation; and, executive function – how the administration manages implementation. The methodological approach follows a traditional public policy analysis investigation of policy design, implementation, and evaluation.

Publication Title

International Journal of Strategic Management

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