How have welfare states responded to the coronavirus pandemic? In this introductory article, we provide a synopsis of papers that comprise this special issue on social policy responses to COVID‐19, an overview of some of the key questions they raise, and some provisional answers to these questions. Our conclusions are threefold: first, these social policy responses, while entailing new developments in many countries, nonetheless reflect, at least in part, existing national policy legacies. Second, these responses can be understood as a form of “emergency Keynesianism,” which is characterized by the massive use of deficit spending during economic crises, with the aim of to supporting rather than challenging core capitalist institutions. Third, there are clear differences in terms of the nature of the reforms enacted during the initial phase of the COVID‐19 crisis as compared to reforms enacted as a response to the 2008 financial crisis.

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面对全球大流行的社会政策：应对COVID-19危机的政策

福利国家如何应对冠状病毒大流行？在此介绍性文章中，我们提供了一些论文提要，其中包括有关社会政策对COVID-19的回应的这一特殊问题，概述了他们提出的一些关键问题，以及对这些问题的一些临时性答案。我们的结论有三个方面：第一，这些社会政策应对措施虽然在许多国家带来了新的发展，但至少部分反映了现有的国家政策遗留问题。其次，这些反应可以理解为“紧急凯恩斯主义”的一种形式，其特征是在经济危机期间大量使用赤字支出，目的是支持而不是挑战核心资本主义制度。第三，