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

Sarah James, Caroline Tervo, Theda Skocpol
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences December 2022, 8 (8) 154-180; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.8.08
Sarah James
aAssistant professor of political science at Gonzaga University, United States
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bGraduate of Harvard College and JD candidate at Duke University, United States
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Theda Skocpol
cThe Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University, United States
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    Month of URL Publication for Public COVID Dashboard

    Source: Authors’ calculations based on data from The Wayback Machine (Internet Archive, n.d.).

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    States with Advertised Long-Term Reopening Plans, July 2020

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    States with Advertised Contingent Reopening Thresholds, July 2020

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    Statewide Mask Mandates

    Source: Authors’ calculations based on NYT Reopening Tracker (New York Times 2020).

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    Length of Stay-at-Home Orders, 2020

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    Length of Mask Mandates in Days (OLS)

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    Length of Mask Mandates in Days with Detailed Republican Categorization (OLS)

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    Length of Stay-at-Home Orders in 2020 in Days (OLS)

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    Length of Stay-at-Home Orders in 2020 in Days with Detailed Republican Categorization (OLS)

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    Long-Term Plans and Reopening Thresholds by State

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Sarah James, Caroline Tervo, Theda Skocpol
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    • THEORETICAL INSIGHTS FROM POLITICAL SCIENCE LITERATURES ON FEDERALISM
    • HOW STATES GATHERED AND PUBLICIZED DATA (MARCH–JULY 2020)
    • STATE MITIGATION RESPONSES (MARCH–DECEMBER 2020)
    • INTERBRANCH BATTLES
    • LATE RESPONSE: THE BIDEN, VACCINE, AND DELTA ERA (JANUARY–SEPTEMBER 2021)
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