Reflections on the Impact of Coronavirus on Public Affairs

As the editorial team considered how we might best mark the 20th anniversary year of the publication of the Journal of Public Affairs and reflected on what significant developments have occurred in the world of public affairs over the past two decades, none of us around that table could have possibly imagined how the world of politics and society as a whole could and would change in just a few short months. Yes we all witnessed the horrible effects of Ebola in Africa, and of SARS in the Far East and in the UK we experienced the nationwide lockdown of countryside during the infamous foot and mouth disease that ravaged the countryside in 2001. However devastating each of these disease outbreaks that we might think of as contagions have been, none can really compare or have prepared us fully for a the rapidity and impact that the recent coronavirus pandemic has had across the world, not only in terms of the scale of the infection rising death rate, but in the profound impact it has had on the economy and on people's lives and livelihoods

Citation

Harris, P., & Moss, D. (2020). Editorial: Reflections on the impact of Coronavirus on public affairs. Journal of Public Affairs, 20(2), e2205. https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.2205

Publisher

Wiley

Journal

Journal of Public Affairs

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10034/624090

DOI

10.1002/pa.2205

Type

Article

Description

This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Harris, P. & Moss, D. (2020) Editorial: Reflections on the Impact of Coronavirus on Public Affairs. Journal of Public Affairs, 20(2), which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.2205. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.

ISSN

1472-3891

EISSN

1479-1854

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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pa.2205