{"658885":{"#nid":"658885","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Matisoff Co-Authors Article on Why Covid-19 Policies Change","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDaniel Matisoff, associate professor in the School of Public Policy, co-authored an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/ropr.12487\u0022\u003Earticle\u003C\/a\u003E published in \u003Cem\u003EReview of Policy Research\u003C\/em\u003E. The piece is titled \u0026ldquo;Contagious Covid-19 Policies: Policy Diffusion During Times of Crisis.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn it, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/daniel-matisoff\u0022\u003EMatisoff\u003C\/a\u003E and his co-authors discuss why it is that countries chose to implement different policies in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as why those policies changed. They found that the policies of a given country\u0026rsquo;s peers, as well as similarities of language drive policy changes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;While the Covid-19 is an extreme case, it seems likely that all governments rely on emulation to assist with decision making in conditions when information is imperfect,\u0026rdquo; the authors write. \u0026ldquo;When faced with uncertainty about the political, economic, or scientific effects of a potential policy, relying on peers as a decision heuristic reduces the burden on political decision makers to make contentious decisions.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERead the full article at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/ropr.12487\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/ropr.12487\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe article was published in \u0026quot;Review of Policy Research.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The article was published in \u0022Review of Policy Research.\u0022"}],"uid":"34946","created_gmt":"2022-06-14 20:11:11","changed_gmt":"2022-06-14 20:11:30","author":"gwyner3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-06-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-06-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"405851":{"id":"405851","type":"image","title":"Daniel Matisoff","body":null,"created":"1449254153","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:35:53","changed":"1475895129","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:09","alt":"Daniel Matisoff","file":{"fid":"76110","name":"danielmatisoffweb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/danielmatisoffweb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/danielmatisoffweb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":47789,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/danielmatisoffweb.jpg?itok=dxf_75UL"}}},"media_ids":["405851"],"groups":[{"id":"648414","name":"_OLD: Ivan Allen College \u0022The Buzz\u0022"},{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:gwyner3@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGrace Wyner\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Public Policy | Sam Nunn School of International Affairs\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}