Government Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic Between a Rock and a Hard Place

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 p...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Shvetsova, Olga (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 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