Politics in a pandemic : governance and crisis management in Southeast Asia / Meredith L. Weiss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weiss, Meredith L. (Meredith Leigh), 1972- author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Politics and society in Southeast Asia

Cambridge elements. Elements in politics and society in Southeast Asia, 2515-2998

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Southeast Asia--Politics and government.

Southeast Asia.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Political aspects--Southeast Asia.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Government policy--Southeast Asia.

Crisis management--Government policy--Southeast Asia.

Crisis management.

Emergency management--Government policy--Southeast Asia.

Emergency management.

Emergency management--Government policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (88 pages).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"The COVID-19 pandemic offers unique insight into how regimes govern in 'hard times.' In Southeast Asia, public health and economic strain revealed the scope for adaptation in the face of crisis, against the pull of path-dependent habits and patterns. Recent experience of SARS and other outbreaks, as well as wider political and economic contexts, shaped readiness and responses. Especially important were legacies of the developmental-state model. Even largely absent a prior welfarist turn, core developmentalist attributes helped foster citizen buy-in and compliance: how efficiently and well states could coordinate provision of necessary infrastructure, spur biomedical innovation, marshal resources, tamp down political pressure, and constrain rent-seeking, all while maintaining popular trust. Also salient to pandemic governance were the actual distribution of authority, beyond what institutional structures imply, and the extent to which state–society relations, including habits of coercion or rent-seeking, encourage more or less programmatic or confidence-building frames and approaches"-- Cambridge Core.

Contents:

Understanding COVID-19 in Southeast Asia

What shaped Southeast Asian states’ performance

Implications and conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed December 14, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version: Weiss, Meredith L. (Meredith Leigh), 1972- Politics in a pandemic

ISBN:

9781108933155

1108933157

OCLC:

1559963104

Publisher Number:

CIPO000314874

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license