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%T Germany's Corona Crisis: The State of Emergency and Policy(Mis)learning %A Dostal, Jörg Michael %J Journal of the Korean-German Association for Social Sciences / Zeitschrift der Koreanisch-Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sozialwissenschaften %N 1 %P 29-75 %V 31 %D 2021 %K Corona virus; emergency regime; policy learning; lockdown %~ Seoul National University %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-72220-8 %X This article analyzes Germany's policy-making in response to the Corona crisis between January 2020 and March 2021. Two theoretical perspectives are advanced. The first concerns how the government's imposition of a 'state of emergency' affects liberal democratic policy-making resulting in the closure of deliberation in favor of top-down imposition. The second perspective looks at different types of policy learning under crisis conditions. The central thesis is that Germany's emergency regime failed to facilitate effective policy-making since it closed down venues in which policy learning could occur. Thus, the state of emergency combined authoritarianism and inefficiency. A variety of explanations are advanced to clarify causes for the sluggishness of the German federal, regional, and local government levels to meet Corona-related challenges. %C DEU %G en %9 Zeitschriftenartikel %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info