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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greer, Scott L., Editor.

Contributor:

Fonseca, Elize Massard da, editor.

Peralta-Santos, André, editor.

King, Elizabeth J., editor.

Greer, Scott L., editor.

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

COVID-19 (Disease)--Prevention.

COVID-19 (Disease).

COVID-19 (Disease)--Government policy.

COVID-19 (Disease)--Political aspects.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource viii, 649 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University of Michigan Press

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 sector spending. A significant amount of research has already been published on COVID-19, with a focus on its medical and epidemiological dimensions but also social science country reports and monitoring projects that are essentially descriptive. The objective of this book is to identify key threads in the global comparative discussion that continue to shed light on COVID-19 and shape debates about what it means for scholarship in health and comparative politics. The editors bring together over 30 authors versed in politics and the health issues in order to understand the health policy decisions, the public health interventions, the social policy decisions, their interactions, and the reasons. The book’s coverage is global, with a wide range of key and exemplary countries, and contains a mixture of comparative, thematic, and templated country studies. All go beyond reporting and monitoring to develop explanations that draw on the authors' expertise while engaging in structured conversations across the book.

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.

Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-472-03862-1

OCLC:

1241101001

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11927713