Policy Design for <scp>COVID</scp>‐19: Worldwide Evidence on the Efficacies of Early Mask Mandates and Other Policy Interventions

An, Brian; Porcher, Simon; Tang, Shui-Yan; Kim, Eunji Emily

doi:10.1111/puar.13426

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“…Although Hofstede's work suffers from some limitations, it provides a useful and well-established framework for comparing cultures across countries 1 (Doney, Cannon, and Mullen 1998;Grimmelikhuijsen et al 2013). Scholars have examined how national cultures affect public management processes and outcomes, such as administrative reforms and quality of government (e.g., An et al, 2021;Meyer and Hammerschmid 2010;Porcher 2021). For example, Grimmelikhuijsen et al (2013) find that the negative effect of transparency on trust in government is stronger in high power distance or long-term oriented cultures such as South Korea.…”

Section: The Cultural Approach: National Culturementioning

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A Meta‐Analysis of the Government Performance—Trust Link: Taking Cultural and Methodological Factors into Account

Zhang

Yang

2021

Public Administration Review

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The performance‐trust link constitutes an important issue, but the public administration and political science literature has been equivocal regarding how it is influenced by cultural and methodological factors. Meta‐analyzing 72 empirical studies, this article finds that the link is stronger in low power distance countries, when outputs are used to measure government performance, or when the focus is on local government. In addition, the performance‐trust link holds true regardless of whether performance data are subjective or objective, or whether the studies focus on performance of government as a whole or specific agencies. The results imply that in order to nurture and sustain trust in government, we should pay more attention to societal cultures and the way government performance information is provided. Trust in government studies should become both more scientific and more culturally sensitive.

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Section: The Cultural Approach: National Culturementioning

confidence: 99%

A Meta‐Analysis of the Government Performance—Trust Link: Taking Cultural and Methodological Factors into Account

Zhang

Yang

2021

Public Administration Review

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“…The consideration of these 19 measures also correspond to their usages in several recent COVID-19 studies (e.g. [ 31 , 32 ],), and these can hence assist in gaining insights on Governments’ responses during the COVID-19 onslaught.…”

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How do economic and public finance statuses affect policy responses during a pandemic? – learning from the COVID-19 first wave

Imam

Uddin

2022

BMC Public Health

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Background In the time of a pandemic, it is typical for public health bodies to collaborate with epidemiologists to design health policies both at national and international levels for controlling the spread. A point largely overlooked in literature is the extent economic capability and public finance status can influence the policy responses of countries during a pandemic situation. This article fills this gap by considering 12 public health and 7 economic measures (i.e., policies) in 200 countries during the COVID-19 first wave, with countries grouped across income categories. Methods We apply statistical analysis, inclusive of regression models, to assess the impact of economic capability and public finance status on policy responses. Multiple open-access datasets are used in this research, and information from the hybrid sources are cumulated as samples. In our analysis, we consider variables including population characteristics (population size, density) and economic and public finance status (GDR, current account balance, government surplus/deficit) further to policy responses across public health and economic measures. Additionally, we consider infection rates across countries and the institution of the measures relative to infection rate. Results Results suggest that countries from all income groups have favoured public health measures like school closures and travel bans, and economic measures like influencing interest rates. However, strong economy countries have more adopted technological monitoring than low-income countries. Contrarily, low-income countries have preferred traditional measures like curfew and obligatory mask-wearing. GDP per capita was a statistically significant factor influencing the institution of both public health and economic measures. Government finance statuses like current account balance and surplus/deficit were also significant factors influencing economic measures. Conclusions Overall, the research reveals that, further to biological characteristics, policymakers and epidemiologists can consider the economic and public finance contexts when suggesting health responses to a pandemic. This, in turn, calls for more international cooperation on economic terms further to public health terms.

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“…Differences in the actual efficacy appeared across particular measures [ 37 ]. For example, a mask mandate was of stronger efficiency than that of other policy instruments, such as gathering bans [ 38 ]. In that regard, some scholars found that gathering ban measures have been far more prevalent in COVID-19 than in former pandemics, but there has been insufficient concern about their specific role on their own [ 39 ].…”

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Public Compliance Matters in Evidence-Based Public Health Policy: Evidence from Evaluating Social Distancing in the First Wave of COVID-19

Wang

2022

IJERPH

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When the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic first spread, governments could implement a wide range of measures to tackle the outbreaks. Conventional wisdom holds that public health policy should be made on the basis of empirical demonstrations, while little research has probed on how to safeguard the expected policy utility in the case of evidence shortage on novel contagious diseases. In particular, the fight against COVID-19 cannot succeed without public compliance as well as the support of people who have not tested positive. Based on the data from the first wave of COVID-19, by using a random effect estimator, fixed effect method, and hierarchical technique, we specified the efficiency of particular social distancing policies by contextualizing multiple factors. We found that adopting gathering restrictions decreased new case growth but were conditional on its interaction with population density, while mitigation effects constantly corresponded to policy magnitude in a given time; for which the effective patterns varied from three days to sixty days. Overall, policies encouraging social distancing exerted a positive effect on mitigating the first wave of COVID-19. Both the enforcing duration and public compliance constrained the expected impact of nonpharmaceutical intervention according to degrees of policy level. These findings suggest that, when evidence is incomplete, the effectiveness of public health crisis management depends on the combination of policy appropriateness and, accordingly, public compliance.

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Policy Design for COVID‐19: Worldwide Evidence on the Efficacies of Early Mask Mandates and Other Policy Interventions

Cited by 36 publications

References 113 publications

A Meta‐Analysis of the Government Performance—Trust Link: Taking Cultural and Methodological Factors into Account

A Meta‐Analysis of the Government Performance—Trust Link: Taking Cultural and Methodological Factors into Account

How do economic and public finance statuses affect policy responses during a pandemic? – learning from the COVID-19 first wave

Public Compliance Matters in Evidence-Based Public Health Policy: Evidence from Evaluating Social Distancing in the First Wave of COVID-19

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