Government Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Herausgeber: Shvetsova, Olga

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how governments around the world responded to the health emergency created by the COVID-19 pandemic. Before vaccines became available, non-medical interventions were the main means to protect the public. Non-medical interventions were put in place by governments as public health policies. In every nation, politicians and governments faced a choice situation, and worldwide, they made different choices. Public health policies came at a price, in economic, social, and ultimately electoral costs to the political incumbents. The book discusses differences in governments' policy efforts to mitigate the virus spread. The authors conduct in-depth analysis of country-cases from Africa, North and South America, Asia, and Europe. They also offer small-n- comparative analyses as well as report global patterns and trends of governments' responsiveness to the medical emergency. It will appeal to all those interested in public policy, health policy and governance. Olga Shvetsova is Professor of Political Science and Economics, and Scientific Director of the COVID-19 Policy Response Lab at Binghamton University, USA.  

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing / Springer Nature Switzerland
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 356g
• ISBN-13: 9783031308468
• ISBN-10: 3031308468
• Artikelnr.: 72553650

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Governments and the COVID
19 pandemic: some general patterns and puzzles.
Chapter 2. COVID
19 response in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh: shared history, different process.
Chapter 3. An analysis of government responses to COVID
19 in Latin America's three federations.
Chapter 4. Pick your poison: political condition, economic structure, and COVID
19 response in Malaysia and Indonesia.
Chapter 5. Political entrepreneurship vs. parties: the importance of party linkage in young democracies.
Chapter 6. COVID
19 pandemic policy response and outcomes in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Chapter 7. Denmark, Finland, Italy, and Spain: the institutional underpinnings of policy making in the face of the COVID
19 pandemic.
Chapter 8. Populist responses to COVID
19: the cases of Turkey and Israel.
Chapter 9. A few take
away observations.