COVID-19 is the most significant global crisis of any of our lifetimes. The numbers have been stupefying, whether of infection and mortality, the scale of public health measures, or the economic consequences of shutdown. Coronavirus Politics identifies 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. Editors Scott L. Greer, Elizabeth J. King, Elize Massard da Fonseca, and André Peralta-Santos 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.
Author(s): Scott L. Greer, Elizabeth J King, Elize Massard da Fonseca, Andre Peralta-Santos
Edition: 1
Publisher: University Of Michigan Press
Year: 2021
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF | Full TOC
Pages: 663
Tags: COVID-19 (Disease): Government Policy; COVID-19 (Disease): Government Policy Cross-Cultural Studies; COVID-19 (Disease): Political Aspects; COVID-19 (Disease): Political Aspects Cross-cultural Studies; COVID-19 (Disease): Prevention; COVID-19 (Disease): Prevention Cross-cultural Studies
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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
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