{"title":"Introduction: Exploring the long-term social policy consequences of COVID-19.","authors":"Tim Dorlach","doi":"10.1177/14680181231180516","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46041,"journal":{"name":"Global Social Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5000,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10271941/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Global Social Policy","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14680181231180516","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2023/6/14 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"POLITICAL SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
2020年初爆发的新冠肺炎疫情给福利国家机构带来了巨大挑战,尤其是劳动力市场、社会援助、医疗保健、教育和养老金政策(Dorlach,2023:99)。社会政策学者通过跟踪并开始解释各国对疫情的各种社会政策反应,迅速为应对这些挑战做出了贡献(例如,Béland等人,2021;Blofield等人,2023;Cook和Ulriksen,2021;Devereux,2021)。到目前为止,大多数这项研究的实证重点自然是政府在2020年和2021年推出的“初步”或“早期”社会政策应对措施。这篇关于疫情期间社会政策的文献的一个一致发现是,最初的政策反应大多是“临时的和有针对性的”(Dorlach,2023:97),因此“只是权宜之计”(Leisering,2021:412)。重要的是,要继续并深化这一系列关于政府在疫情期间的初步社会政策反应的研究,尤其是在为(可能不可避免的)下一次全球疫情做准备时。与此同时,研究人员现在也应该开始探索新冠肺炎的长期社会政策后果,从而超越短期和明确的政策应对。虽然没有明确而统一的界线来划分这场大流行的结束,但新冠肺炎作为一场全球危机,在世界大多数地区似乎越来越成为过去。事实上,2023年5月,世界卫生组织解除了新冠肺炎国际关注突发公共卫生事件宣言(Nolen,2023)。在社会政策领域,到2022年,大多数国家已经逐步取消了许多短期应对措施。然而,这并不意味着新冠肺炎对福利国家发展的影响现在已经结束,特别是如果疫情真的构成了一个“关键时刻”(Béland et al.,2021:251)。因此,学者们应该开始更系统地思考社会
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Global Social Policy is a fully peer-reviewed journal that advances the understanding of the impact of globalisation processes upon social policy and social development on the one hand, and the impact of social policy upon globalisation processes on the other hand. The journal analyses the contributions of a range of national and international actors, both governmental and non-governmental, to global social policy and social development discourse and practice. Global Social Policy publishes scholarly policy-oriented articles and reports that focus on aspects of social policy and social and human development as broadly defined in the context of globalisation be it in contemporary or historical contexts.