TEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL DIMENSIONS OF THE IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON THE PUBLIC POLICIES PROCESS

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze, based on qualitative research, how the COVID-19 pandemic may influence the public policy process. Understanding through the public policy process the development of the following steps: defining the problem, implicitly the way in which the proposal entered on the agenda and the actors involved in the process, identifying alternatives and comparing them based on predetermined selection criteria, choosing an alternative and decision making on the choice for public policy proposal, the implementation and the evaluation of public policy, this article proposes an analysis of how each stage of the process is impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in a general context in which the whole world has changed, is changing and adapting this reality.