• Understanding policy responses to COVID-19: the stars haven’t fallen from the sky for scholars of public policy 

      McConnell, Allan; Stark, Alastair
      Published 2021
      Responses to COVID-19 across the globe are immensely varied and often perplexing. Policy levers, from mask wearing and social distancing to lockdowns and school closures, have been adopted and avoided with equal conviction ...
      Article
    • What's Going On? 

      Boin, Arjen; McConnell, Allan; 't Hart, Paul
      Published 2021
      For a crisis to be effectively governed, it must first be noticed, interpreted, understood and assessed. This chapter explores how policymakers ‘made sense’ of the emerging COVID-19 pandemic. We focus on: (1) how policymakers ...
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    • Crafting Crisis Narratives 

      Boin, Arjen; McConnell, Allan; 't Hart, Paul
      Published 2021
      Communication is pivotal when a society faces a sudden, disruptive and disturbing event. People want to know what is going on, why it is happening, what is done to safeguard them and what they can to protect themselves. ...
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    • ‘New’ Histories of (Australian) Capitalism 

      Huf, Ben; Sluga, Glenda
      Published 2019
      In the decade since the Great Recession of 2007–08, ‘capitalism’ has re-emerged as a pervasive framework for understanding a world in momentous flux. Across the globe, a torrent of public-minded scholarship has debated the ...
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    • From F. Melian Stawell to E. Greene Balch: International and Internationalist Thinking at the Gender Margins, 1919–1947 

      Sluga, Glenda
      Published 2021
      Like several other interwar liberal internationalists, F. Melian Stawell was a classicist by training, set for an illustrious career at Cambridge working simultaneously on the ancient Greeks and contemporary world order. ...
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