Pandemic narratives and policy responses
West European governments and Covid-19
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7880930 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amrita Narlikar (German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg, Germany), Cecilia Emma Sottilotta (0000-0001-5331-6998, The American University of Rome, Rome, Italy) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1238-1257 |
| Publication date | 2021-08-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of European Public Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1350-1763 • E-ISSN: 1466-4429 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13501763.2021.1942152 |
| OpenAlex | W3175076241 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 14 |
Governments across western Europe have adopted significantly different policy responses to the existential challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. We propose that a key to understanding the differences in policy responses may lie in narratives. Focusing on fifteen countries in western Europe, as well as two contrasting case studies on Sweden and Greece, we investigate the relationship between the narratives that governments developed on the threats generated by COVID-19, and the (early) stringency of their respective policy responses that followed. Our analysis suggests that there is an inverse relationship between the emphasis on the economic cost of the pandemic and on framing the disease as affecting 'only' certain sub-groups severely in government narratives, and the tendency to introduce early and stringent restrictions
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Biology · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Development economics · Disease · Economics · Existentialism · Framing (construction · Geography · Government (linguistics · Narrative · Outbreak · Pandemic · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · COVID-19 epidemiological studies · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts · Law · Medicine · Virology
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| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |