Muting Science
Input Overload Versus Scientific Advice in Swiss Policy Making During the Covid‐19 Pandemic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10360422 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Klaus Armingeon (0000-0003-4186-3155, University of Zurich, corresponding author), Fritz Sager (0000-0001-5099-6676, University of Zurich) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 424-432 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Political Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3179 • E-ISSN: 1467-923X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-923x.13151 |
| PMID | 35937568 |
| OpenAlex | W4281630892 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 5 |
This article explores why the Swiss Federal Council and the Swiss Federal Parliament were reluctant to follow the majority views of the scientific epidemiological community at the beginning of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. We propose an institutionalist take on this question and argue that one major explanation could be the input overload that is characteristic of the Swiss federal political system. We define input overload as the simultaneous inputs of corporatist, pluralist, federalist and direct democratic subsystems. Adding another major input-this time from the scientific subsystem-may have threatened to further erode the government's and parliament's discretionary power to cope with the pandemic. We assume that the federal government reduced its input overload by fending off scientific advice
Advice (programming · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Democracy · Federalist · Government (linguistics · Pandemic · Parliament · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Computer Science · Law · Medicine · Political Science Research and Education · Public Administration
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |