The Social and Political Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Introduction

Beth Redbird; Laurel Harbridge-Yong; Rachel Davis Mersey

doi:10.7758/RSF.2022.8.8.01

Article Information

vol. 8 no. 8 1-29

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.8.01

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

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2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online December 15, 2022.

© 2022 Russell Sage Foundation. Redbird, Beth, Laurel Harbridge-Yong, and Rachel Davis Mersey. 2022. “The Social and Political Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Introduction.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 8(8): 1–29. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2022.8.8.01. We thank the Russell Sage Foundation for the opportunity to pursue this issue and for the constructive feedback from the reviewers at all stages of the proposal. We also acknowledge the support of the National Science Foundation (Awards 2027278 and 2051194), which funded the COVID-19 Social Change Surveys (2020, 2021). Direct correspondence to: Beth Redbird, at redbird@northwestern.edu, 1810 Chicago Ave., Evanston, IL 60208, United States; Laurel Harbridge-Yong, at l-harbridge@northwestern.edu, Scott Hall, 601 University Place, Evanston, IL 60208, United States; Rachel Davis Mersey, at rdm@austin.utexas.edu, 300 West Dean Keeton, A0900, Austin, TX 78712, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

Beth Redbird^a,
Laurel Harbridge-Yong^b and
Rachel Davis Mersey^c

^aAssistant professor of sociology and a faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research and at the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research at Northwestern University and director of the COVID-19 Social Change Laboratory, United States
^bAssociate professor of political science, a faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University, and Co-PI of the COVID-19 Social Change Survey, United States
^cJesse H. Jones Centennial Professor in the Moody College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin, United States

Correspondence authors:
Beth Redbird, (redbird{at}northwestern.edu), Laurel Harbridge-Yong, (l-arbridge{at}northwestern.edu), Rachel Davis Mersey, (rdm{at}austin.utexas.edu)

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