Democracy, Capacity, and Coercion in Pandemic Response
Covid-19 in Comparative Political Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23344877 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew M Kavanagh (0000-0003-1751-4828, Georgetown University), Renu Singh (0000-0003-2616-6618, Georgetown University) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 997-1012 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-6878 • E-ISSN: 1527-1927 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/03616878-8641530 |
| PMID | 32464665 |
| OpenAlex | W3029368900 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 75 |
| References cited | 34 |
The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged governments around the world. It also has challenged conventional wisdom and empirical understandings in the comparative politics and policy of health. Three major questions present themselves: First, some of the countries considered to be most prepared—having the greatest capacity for outbreak response—have failed to respond effectively to the pandemic. How should our understanding of capacity shift in light of COVID-19, and how can we incorporate political capacity into thinking about pandemic preparedness? Second, several of the mechanisms through which democracy has been shown to be beneficial for health have not traveled well to explain the performance of governments in this pandemic. Is there an authoritarian advantage in disease response? Third, after decades in which coercive public health measures have increasingly been considered counterproductive, COVID-19 has inspired widespread embrace of rigid lockdowns, isolation, and quarantine enforced by police. Will these measures prove effective in the long run and reshape public health thinking? This article explores some of these questions with emerging examples, even amid the pandemic, when it is too soon to draw conclusions.
Authoritarianism · Coercion (linguistics) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Democracy · Development economics · Disease · Economics · Infectious disease (medical specialty) · Isolation (microbiology) · Pandemic · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Preparedness · Public health · Sociology · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Medicine · Public Health Policies and Education
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Pandemic preparedness systems and diverging Covid-19 responses within similar public health regimes
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Administrative characteristics and timing of governments' crisis responses
Regulatory Approaches in the Face of a Pandemic
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Everyday capabilities were a path to resilience during Covid-19
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Institutions and the politics of agency in Covid-19 response
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Perceived Changes in Sexual Interest and Distress About Discrepant Sexual Interest During the First Phase of Covid-19 Pandemic
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| Unique citing works | 75 |
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| Citations per year | 12,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 71 |