Institutional Capacities, Partisan Divisions, and Federal Tensions in U.S. Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Sarah James; Caroline Tervo; Theda Skocpol

doi:10.7758/RSF.2022.8.8.08

Article Information

vol. 8 no. 8 154-180

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.8.08

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online December 15, 2022.

© 2022 Russell Sage Foundation. James, Sarah, Caroline Tervo, and Theda Skocpol. 2022. “Institutional Capacities, Partisan Divisions, and Federal Tensions in U.S. Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 8(8): 154–80. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2022.8.8.08. The authors thank Lainey Newman and Harvard undergraduates Eliza Oehmler and Swathi Srinivasan for their valuable research work contributing to this article. For their feedback on early versions, we thank Meredith Dost, Shannon Parker, and Amy Lakeman. Direct correspondence to: Sarah James, at jamess@gonzaga.edu, 502 E. Boone Ave., Spokane, WA 99258, United States; Caroline Tervo, at caroline.tervo@duke.edu, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138, United States; Theda Skocpol, at skocpol@fas.harvard.edu, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138, 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

Sarah James^a,
Caroline Tervo^b and
Theda Skocpol^c

^aAssistant professor of political science at Gonzaga University, United States
^bGraduate of Harvard College and JD candidate at Duke University, United States
^cThe Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University, United States

Correspondence authors:
Sarah James, (jamess{at}gonzaga.edu), Caroline Tervo, (caroline.tervo{at}duke.edu), Theda Skocpol, (skocpol{at}fas.harvard.edu)

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