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Pandemic Policymaking: Learning the Lower Dimensional Manifold of Congressional Responsiveness
Philip D. Waggoner
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A recent study leveraging text of pandemic-related policymaking from 1973--2020 explored whether pandemic policymaking has evolved, or whether we are witnessing a new, unique era of policymaking as it relates to large-scale crises like COVID-19. This research picks up on this approach over the same period of study and based on the same data, but excluding text. Instead, using high dimensional manifold learning, this study explores the latent structure of the pandemic policymaking space based only on bill-level characteristics. Results indicate the COVID-19 era of policymaking maps extremely closely onto prior periods of related policymaking. This suggests that there is less of an "evolutionary trend" in pandemic policymaking, where instead there is striking uniformity in Congressional policymaking related to these types of large-scale crises, despite being in a unique era of hyperpolarization, division, and ineffective governance.
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