Reacting, fast and slow: how world leaders shaped government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic
Timon Forster,Mirko Heinzel +1 more
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In this paper, the COVID-19 pandemic created extraordinary challenges for governments to safeguard the well-being of their people, and to what extent has leaders' reliance on scientific advice shaped government respo...Abstract:
The COVID-19 pandemic created extraordinary challenges for governments to safeguard the well-being of their people. To what extent has leaders’ reliance on scientific advice shaped government respo...read more
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Vaccine alliance building blocks: a conjoint experiment on popular support for international COVID-19 cooperation formats.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored Germans' preferences for international COVID-19 vaccine alliance design principles and found that a larger alliance size and dominant EU-country composition increase alliance support.
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Pandemic control vs. economic recovery: understanding the dynamics of work and production resumption policy in local China
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The Politics of Covid-19 Containment Policies in europe
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TL;DR: The authors argue that the negligible effect of politics, broadly defined, is confined to the first wave and that during subsequent waves over the autumn 2020 to spring 2021 season some of the above political factors contribute to our understanding of variation in countries' response.
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Public opinion concerning governments’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Cathy W. S. Chen,Tsai-Hung Fan +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examined the political issues resulting in public opinion concerning their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic via an international perspective and determined whether differences in political support can be attributed to the presence of approval ratings during the pandemic, and to identify exceptional cases based on statistical predictions.
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Follow the science: The European public health community confronts the first wave of the COVID‐19 pandemic
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examined the first phase of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in three countries: Denmark, the Netherlands, and Sweden.
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Pandemic performance: Women leaders in the Covid-19 crisis
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The professional politics of the austerity debate: A comparative field analysis of the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund
Cornel Ban,Bryan Patenaude +1 more
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How Europe’s Political Leaders Made Sense of the Euro Crisis: The Influence of Pressure and Personality
Femke Van Esch,Marij Swinkels +1 more
TL;DR: The Greek announcement of its excessive debts led to one of the most severe crises the EU has faced since its inception, and the crisis soon evolved into a full leadership crisis as European political...