TY - JOUR
T1 - The Post-Normal Challenges of COVID-19
T2 - Constructing Effective and Legitimate Responses
AU - Rainey, Stephen
AU - Mormina, Maru
AU - Lignou, Sapfo
AU - Nguyen, Joseph
AU - Larsson, Paula
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The ongoing COVID-19 emergency clearly presents novel challenges, both in terms of difficulties for maintaining public health and in assuring that governmental responses are ethically sound. Centrally, responses must respect, as best as possible, fundamental human rights and human values. Conflicts among values arise in response to the crisis, and public officials have no choice but to prioritize some while sacrificing others. Utilizing the concepts of effectiveness and legitimacy within the framework of post-normal science (PNS), we investigate and recommend processes and measures to address COVID-19 that support increased public health, while upholding established rights and values. The effectiveness and legitimacy of science-led policymaking requires investigation of how that policy ought to be made (e.g. concepts of policymaking and PNS), as well as how it ought to interact with diversely-constituted publics (e.g. public inclusion in policymaking and policy communication).
AB - The ongoing COVID-19 emergency clearly presents novel challenges, both in terms of difficulties for maintaining public health and in assuring that governmental responses are ethically sound. Centrally, responses must respect, as best as possible, fundamental human rights and human values. Conflicts among values arise in response to the crisis, and public officials have no choice but to prioritize some while sacrificing others. Utilizing the concepts of effectiveness and legitimacy within the framework of post-normal science (PNS), we investigate and recommend processes and measures to address COVID-19 that support increased public health, while upholding established rights and values. The effectiveness and legitimacy of science-led policymaking requires investigation of how that policy ought to be made (e.g. concepts of policymaking and PNS), as well as how it ought to interact with diversely-constituted publics (e.g. public inclusion in policymaking and policy communication).
KW - COVID-19
KW - governance
KW - post-normal science
KW - rights
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85117008048&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1093/scipol/scab037
DO - 10.1093/scipol/scab037
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85117008048
SN - 0302-3427
VL - 48
SP - 592
EP - 601
JO - Science and Public Policy
JF - Science and Public Policy
IS - 4
ER -