The COVID-19 pandemic is a global event unlike any other experienced in the contemporary era. Its size, scope, reach, and implications are enormous, ongoing, and unequal. Outcomes-from how people all over the world will live their daily lives to whether democracy will survive-are all in question.
Come into our virtual classroom to delve deeper into the pandemic-related themes we will explore in this survey course for everyone.
Times of crisis require governments to cooperate and coordinate large-scale responses. Yet Congress and President Trump are inherently partisan actors in a federal system who must negotiate competing pressures of obtaining concrete results for constituents, while also not being seen as being too accommodating of political rivals. What have been the main takeaways from the politics of legislating in the era of COVID-19 pandemic? How have motives of major actors shifted or changed and how has this impacted the federal response? Does President Trump still dominate the GOP and what electoral outcomes might we see in November, given what current polling, favorability ratings, and climbing COVID cases and deaths tell us?
Wednesday, July 29th
LIVE 4 PM
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