Re-Thinking the COVID-19 Pandemic as a Path Clearing, Policy Accelerating, Punctuation

• In Event: Policy Learning and Change

Brief Overview

COVID-19 has served as a path accelerator in proximate issue areas, removing the legitimacy of blockages and actors who were blocking the pathways (e.g., elections, trade union vetoes) and reinforcing changes already underway.

Authors

• John william Hogan, Technological University Dublin

• Michael Howlett

• Mary P Murphy, Maynooth University