Coronavirus crisis, political mistakes, government failure, government arrangements, United Kingdom, operational issues, responsibilities, dysfunctional policy choices, over-weening, medical facilities, communication, movement restriction measures, learning institutions, construction sites
Mistakes often take place when critical policy-making institutions and politicians take wrong decisions - for instance through under-reaction or overreaction to critical issues, as a result of preoccupation with symbolic and ideological concerns - or as a result of the adoption of wrong policy tools on some challenges. In some cases, changes in regulations and policies get made in good faith and normally in the light of limited evidence, but turn out to have been mistaken with the benefit of hindsight. Many times, decision-makers may insist on courses of action at odds with solid facts and figures presented, or contrary to a recommended course of action, and sometimes against even their interests in the hope of achieving success and evading failure.
[...] Flinders, M. (2021). Democracy and the politics of coronavirus: trust, blame, and understanding. Parliamentary Affairs, 483-502. Gaskell, J., Stoker, G., Jennings, W., & Devine, D. (2020, August 11). Covid-19 and the Blunders of our Governments: Long-run System Failings Aggravated by Political Choices. Wiley Online Library. [...]
[...] Such instances suggested a lack of sound commitment to sustained consultations designed to draw solid solutions, with essential stakeholders excluded from the planning stages of both strategies (Amankwah-Amoah, Khan, & Wood, 2021). The initial plan by the government that learning institutions would open again for students on the 1[st] of June offered a notable example when it got scrapped following opposition from teachers and local councils who proposed that it would be difficult while maintaining strict social distancing guidelines. The case was further compounded by the blame game that ensued between the local authorities, teachers, and the government, over whose fault it was for the failure witnessed in getting students back to learning institutions before summer. [...]
[...] Essay: the coronavirus crisis, a result of political mistakes across the world? Mistakes often take place when critical policy-making institutions and politicians take wrong decisions - for instance through under-reaction or overreaction to critical issues, as a result of preoccupation with symbolic and ideological concerns - or as a result of the adoption of wrong policy tools on some challenges. In some cases, changes in regulations and policies get made in good faith and normally in the light of limited evidence but turn out to have been mistaken with the benefit of hindsight. [...]
[...] Systems of governance may get highly centralized, and perhaps one of the primary benefits as claimed would be decisive and timely interventions when it gets to critical issues. Robust coordinating capacity has often been highlighted by many as critical when it gets to managing the Coronavirus crisis; yet if coordination gets replaced by an ineffectual central direction or over-confident, the systems may be prone to mistakes and blunders when combined with critical decision-making influenced by defensiveness and group think when challenged. [...]
[...] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-923X.12894 Pei, M. (2020). China's coming upheaval: Competition, the coronavirus, and the weakness of Xi Jinping. Foreign Aff 82. [...]
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