Australian Quarantine Policy: From Centralization to Coordination with Mid-Pandemic COVID-19 Shifts

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Moloney, Kim; Moloney, Susan
• 署名单位: Murdoch University; Griffith University
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/puar.13224
• 发表日期: 2020
• 页码: 671-682
• 关键词: swine flu epidemic; historical institutionalism; influenza; HEALTH

摘要

Combining a historical institutionalism approach with institutional isomorphism and punctuated equilibrium, this article analyzes quarantine policy change across 120 years of Australian quarantine history. By anchoring its analysis within specific time periods (the years before the Spanish flu, seven decades of inaction, and multiple post-1997 pandemic updates and responses), the authors highlight when and why policies did or did not change and how the constant push-and-pull between state and Commonwealth institutional ownership altered policy possibilities. The heart of the analysis showcases how Australia's successful COVID-19 response is a unique output of prior quarantine policies, institutional evolution, and mid-pandemic alterations of key national pandemic response plans.