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State Executive Orders: Nuance in Restrictions, Revealing Suspensions, and Decisions to Enforce
Author(s) -
Curley Cali,
Federman Peter Stanley
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
public administration review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.721
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1540-6210
pISSN - 0033-3352
DOI - 10.1111/puar.13250
Subject(s) - enforcement , state (computer science) , executive branch , executive order , suspension (topology) , political science , executive power , business , law and economics , law enforcement , public administration , scale (ratio) , law , sociology , computer science , politics , physics , mathematics , algorithm , quantum mechanics , homotopy , pure mathematics
In the absence of a large‐scale federal response to the COVID‐19 pandemic, state and local elected officials have enacted executive orders that include restrictions on public liberties as well as the suspension of rules and regulations. While these restrictive policy actions have received extensive media attention, the suspensions, including regulatory rollbacks, waivers, and extensions, are lesser known. This Viewpoint essay offers insight from a working database that captures the nuance and variation across restrictions, suspensions, and enforcement mechanisms being utilized at the state level.