How does the use of evidence in policy narratives change during crises? A comparative study of New York City's pandemic school shutdowns

Klatt N, Blum S (2024)
Review of Policy Research.

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Klatt, Nikolina; Blum, SonjaUniBi
Abstract / Bemerkung
**Abstract**
Narratives play an essential role in fast‐paced policy making that occurs during crises. The COVID‐19 pandemic brought numerous disruptions of normality, including school closures, which were intensely debated in narratives by many policy actors. Two shutdowns of New York City's public school system affected over 1.1 million students. This article investigates how scientific evidence was used in the narratives surrounding the school shutdowns in NYC by analyzing around 160 policy narratives with the Narrative Policy Framework. We ask whether and how the growing certainty of evidence on the new Coronavirus was reflected in the policy narratives in the second compared to the first shutdown. While there is increased use of scientific evidence in the second shutdown stage, this does not reflect an increased evidence base: The evolving use of evidence in policy narratives is mainly reflected in its strategic uses to support a certain policy solution within a blame‐avoidance strategy.

**摘要**
叙事在“危机期间发生的快节奏决策”中发挥着至关重要的作用。2019冠状病毒病(COVID‐19)大流行给正常生活带来了许多破坏(包括学校停课),许多政策行动者在叙事中对此展开了激烈的争论。纽约市公立学校系统两次关闭,影响了超过110万学生。通过使用叙事政策框架分析约160个政策叙事,本文研究了科学证据在纽约市学校停课的相关叙事中的使用情况。我们的研究问题是,与第一次学校停课相比,第二次学校停课的政策叙事中是否以及如何反映了日益确定的新冠病毒证据。虽然在第二次学校停课阶段中,科学证据的使用有所增加,但这并不反映证据库的增加:政策叙事中证据的逐步使用主要体现在其策略用途,以期支持一项避责策略中的某个政策解决方案。.

**Resumen**
Las narrativas desempeñan un papel esencial en la rápida formulación de políticas que se produce durante las crisis. La pandemia de COVID‐19 provocó numerosas alteraciones de la normalidad, incluido el cierre de escuelas, que fueron intensamente debatidas en las narrativas de muchos actores políticos. Dos cierres del sistema de escuelas públicas de la ciudad de Nueva York afectaron a más de 1,1 millones de estudiantes. Este artículo investiga cómo se utilizó la evidencia científica en las narrativas que rodearon el cierre de escuelas en la ciudad de Nueva York mediante el análisis de alrededor de 160 narrativas de políticas con el Marco de Políticas Narrativa. Nos preguntamos si la creciente certeza de la evidencia sobre el nuevo coronavirus se reflejó en las narrativas políticas durante el segundo cierre, y cómo, en comparación con el primero. Si bien hay un mayor uso de evidencia científica en la segunda etapa de cierre, esto no refleja una mayor base de evidencia: el uso cambiante de la evidencia en las narrativas políticas se refleja principalmente en sus usos estratégicos para respaldar una determinada solución política dentro de una estrategia para evitar culpas.
Erscheinungsjahr
2024
Zeitschriftentitel
Review of Policy Research
ISSN
1541-132X
eISSN
1541-1338
Page URI
https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2986119

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Klatt N, Blum S. How does the use of evidence in policy narratives change during crises? A comparative study of New York City's pandemic school shutdowns. Review of Policy Research. 2024.
Klatt, N., & Blum, S. (2024). How does the use of evidence in policy narratives change during crises? A comparative study of New York City's pandemic school shutdowns. Review of Policy Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12589
Klatt, Nikolina, and Blum, Sonja. 2024. “How does the use of evidence in policy narratives change during crises? A comparative study of New York City's pandemic school shutdowns”. Review of Policy Research.
Klatt, N., and Blum, S. (2024). How does the use of evidence in policy narratives change during crises? A comparative study of New York City's pandemic school shutdowns. Review of Policy Research.
Klatt, N., & Blum, S., 2024. How does the use of evidence in policy narratives change during crises? A comparative study of New York City's pandemic school shutdowns. Review of Policy Research.
N. Klatt and S. Blum, “How does the use of evidence in policy narratives change during crises? A comparative study of New York City's pandemic school shutdowns”, Review of Policy Research, 2024.
Klatt, N., Blum, S.: How does the use of evidence in policy narratives change during crises? A comparative study of New York City's pandemic school shutdowns. Review of Policy Research. (2024).
Klatt, Nikolina, and Blum, Sonja. “How does the use of evidence in policy narratives change during crises? A comparative study of New York City's pandemic school shutdowns”. Review of Policy Research (2024).
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