Pandemic Politics: American Perspectives

Session Submission Type: Virtual Created Panel

Session Description

The Covid-19 pandemic has shattered our normality. It has altered the international system. The response of the United States seems to confirm the diminution of its global hegemony, yet the shape of the new global order is as yet inchoate. It poses major challenges to political systems of all varieties, and the outcomes we see today in coping with the pandemic will undoubtedly shape the ways in which nations organize state authority in the future. It also challenges our assumptions about the relationship between the environment and human civilization, and science and politics. To address these challenges, Perspectives on Politics, issued a call for papers on “Pandemic Politics” for a special issue. This panel features five papers which discuss these pressing issues from the perspective of the United States.

Sub Unit

• APSA Panels and All Meetings and Receptions

Individual Presentations

• Who Do You Trust? The Consequences of Partisanship and Trust for Public Responsiveness to COVID-19 Orders - Johannes Wiedemann, Yale University; Daniel A N Goldstein, Yale University

• I Hope to Hell Nothing Goes Back to the Way It Was Before": COVID-19, Marginalization, and Native Nations - Raymond Foxworth, First Nations Development Institute; Laura E. Evans, University of Washington; Gabriel Sanchez, University of New Mexico; Cheryl Ellenwood, University of Arizona

• Politics, Markets, and Pandemics: Public Education’s Response to COVID-19 - Leslie K. Finger, University of North Texas; Michael T. Hartney, Boston College

• Still Not Important Enough? COVID-19 Policy Views and Vote Choice - Eric Guntermann, University of California, Berkeley; Gabriel Lenz, UC Berkeley

• COVID-19 and the Paradox of Scientific Advice - Zeynep Pamuk, University of California, San Diego

Chair

• Michael Bernhard University of Florida