Lesson-drawing for the UK Government during the COVID-19 Pandemic: a comparison of official, media and academic lenses

Sophie King-Hill, Ian Greener* (Corresponding Author), Martin Powell

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Abstract

This chapter brings together the literatures on policy learning and lesson-drawing on the one hand, and intra-crisis learning on the other, in order to examine the UK's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The policy learning literature explores issues such as what lessons were learned by whom. The lesson-drawing literature examines the content and process of policy transfer, focusing on the 'fungibility' or 'transferability' of lessons. However, most existing work is based on ‘ordinary’ policy making rather than 'extraordinary' or 'crisis' policy making characterised by elements of threat, urgency and uncertainty such as that during the pandemic.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSocial Policy Review
PublisherPolicy Press
Chapter3
Number of pages32
Volume33
ISBN (Print)978-1447359722
Publication statusPublished - 30 Jul 2021

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NameSocial Policy Review
PublisherPolicy Press

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