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
Biao Huang,Li-Juan Ye,Jiebing Wu +2 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigate how local governments respond to the COVID-19 pandemic with tension by analyzing the policy divergence between central and local governments under the influence of the conflicting goals of pandemic control and economic recovery.
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The Politics of Covid-19 Containment Policies in europe
Thomas Plümper,Eric Neumayer +1 more
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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‘Fiasco prime ministers’: leaders’ beliefs and personality traits as possible causes for policy fiascos
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Freezing deliberation through public expert advice
Erik Baekkeskov,PerOla Öberg +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a comparison of national print media coverage in Sweden and Denmark during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic offers support, showing mechanisms that promote expert consensus in external arenas, and that these can hamper deliberation on public policy.
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