Coronavirus Politics : The Comparative Politics and Policy of COVID-19 / / Scott L. Greer, Elizabeth J. King, André Peralta-Santos, and Elize Massard da Fonseca, editors.
COVID-19 is probably the most significant global crisis of any of our lifetimes. The numbers involved have been stupefying, whether they speak of infection and mortality, the scale of public health measures such as mobility restrictions, or the economic consequences for unemployment and public secto...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Part I
- 1. Introduction: Explaining Pandemic Response / Scott L. Greer, Elizabeth J. King, and Elize Massard da Fonseca
- 2. Playing Politics: The World Health Organization's Response to COVID-19 / Matthew M. Kavanagh, Renu Singh, and Mara Pillinger
- 3. State Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Governance, Surveillance, Coercion, and Social Policy / Holly Jarman
- Part II. Asia
- 4. China's Leninist Response to COVID-19: From Information Repression to Total Mobilization / Victor C. Shih
- 5. Public Policy and Learning from SARS: Explaining COVID-19 in Hong Kong / John P. Burns
- 6. Institutions Matter in Fighting COVID-19: Public Health, Social Policies, and the Control Tower in South Korea / June Park
- 7. Unified, Preventive, Low-cost Government Response to COVID-19 in Việt Nam / Emma Willoughby
- 8. Fighting COVID-19 in Japan: A Success Story? / Takashi Nagata, Akihito Hagihara, Alan Kawarai Lefor, Ryozo Matsuda, and Monika Steffen
- 9. Singapore's Response to COVID-19: An Explosion of Cases despite Being a "Gold Standard" / Rebecca Wai
- 10. India's Response to COVID-19 / Minakshi Raj
- 11. COVID-19 Response in Central Asia: A Cautionary Tale / Pauline Jones and Elizabeth J. King
- Part III. Europe
- 12. COVID-19 in the United Kingdom: How Austerity and a Loss of State Capacity Undermined the Crisis Response / Gemma A. Williams, Selina Rajan, and Jonathan D. Cylus
- 13. The European Union Confronts COVID-19: Another European Rescue of the Nation-state? / Eleanor Brooks, Anniek de Ruijter, and Scott L. Greer
- 14. Denmark's Response to COVID-19: A Participatory Approach to Policy Innovation / Darius Ornston
- 15. France's Multidimensional COVID-19 Response: Ad Hoc Committees and the Sidelining of Public Health Agencies / Sarah D. Rozenblum.
- 16. Political Resonance in Austria's Coronavirus Crisis Management / Margitta Mätzke
- 17. Three Approaches to Handling the COVID Crisis in Federal Countries: Germany, Austria, and Switzerland / Thomas Czypionka and Miriam Reiss
- 18. Italy's Response to COVID-19 / Michelle Falkenbach and Manuela Caiani
- 19. Spain's Response to COVID-19 / Kenneth A. Dubin
- 20. A Tale of Two Pandemics in Three Countries: Portugal, Spain, and Italy / André Peralta-Santos, Luis Saboga-Nunes, and Pedro C. Magalhães
- 21. Greece at the Time of COVID-19: Caught between Scylla and Charybdis / Elena Petelos, Dimitra Lingri, and Christos Lionis
- 22. COVID-19 in Turkey: Public Health Centralism / Saime Özçürümez
- 23. COVID-19 in Central and Eastern Europe: Focus on Czechia, Hungary, and Bulgaria / Olga Löblová, Julia Rone, and Endre Borbáth
- 24. COVID-19 in the Russian Federation: Government Control during the Epidemic / Elizabeth J. King and Victoria I. Dudina
- Part IV. Americas
- 25. The Politics and Policy of Canada's COVID-19 Response / Patrick Fafard, Adèle Cassola, Margaret MacAulay, and Michèle Palkovits
- 26. Anatomy of a Failure: COVID-19 in the United States / Phillip M. Singer, Charley E. Willison, N'dea Moore-Petinak, and Scott L. Greer
- 27. COVID-19 in Brazil: Presidential Denialism and the Subnational Government's Response / Elize Massard da Fonseca, Nicoli Nattrass, Luísa Bolaffi Arantes, and Francisco Inácio Bastos
- 28. Colombia's Response to COVID-19: Pragmatic Command, Social Contention, and Political Challenges / Claudia Acosta, Mónica Uribe-Gómez, and Durfari Velandia-Naranjo
- 29. The Politics of the COVID-19 Pandemic Response in Chile / Claudio A. Méndez
- Part V. Africa
- 30. Pandemic amid Political Crisis: Malawi's Experience with and Response to COVID-19 / Kim Yi Dionne, Boniface Dulani, and Sara E. Fischer.
- 31. Adapting COVID-19 Containment in Africa: Lessons from Tanzania / Thespina (Nina) Yamanis, Ruth Carlitz, and Henry A. Mollel
- 32. Confronting Legacies and Charting a New Course?: The Politics of Coronavirus Response in South Africa / Joseph Harris
- 33. Comparative Analysis of COVID-19 Transmission and Mortality in Select African Countries / Kanayo K. Ogujiuba and Uviwe Binase
- 34. Conclusion / Scott L. Greer, Elize Massard da Fonesca, and Elizabeth J. King
- Contributors
- Index.