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call for papers: nonprofit management for social change

ASPA's Section on Nonprofit Management has issued a call for papers for a symposium to explore how nonprofit and philanthropic research and practice might embrace its interdisciplinarity by developing theories and methodological approaches to challenge traditional ways of understanding and address wicked problems facing communities today. We invite you to submit original manuscripts on methodological approaches to nonprofit and philanthropic studies that embrace interdisciplinarity in a number of ways. Please see the attached for more details.

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Government Roles in the COVID-19 Pandemic Response

Kuotsai Tom Liou & Alex K. Liou
PAQ, Vol. 46 No. 4, 334-358 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.37808/paq.46.4.3

This paper examines roles of the government in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The paper provides theoretical background of government’s roles in the market system and in the public health profession. Based on practical cases, academic studies, and public survey data during the first year of the pandemic, the paper analyzes government’s roles as: protector of public health and safety, regulator of business operations and individual behaviors, and manager of economic stability and growth. The paper concludes with discussions about the characteristics of governmental intervention, critiques of governmental failure, and challenges of government collaboration.

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