Political Regimes and Deaths in the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Cepaluni, Gabriel; Dorsch, Michael; Branyiczki, Réka

doi:10.33774/coe-2020-hvvns

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“…For example, the relationship between regime type and COVID-19-related mortality rates is unclear. Some found that authoritarian regimes were more successful in reducing death tolls (Cepaluni et al, 2020;Cheibub et al, 2020). Democracies, to quote one study, "experienced deaths sooner and on a larger scale" (Cepaluni et al, 2020, p. 24), likely because their more delegative nature constrained the capacity to respond rapidly (Malesky and London, 2014).…”

Section: The Role Of Collaborative Governance In Pandemic Timesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Democratic quality also has a variable impact. Some institutions and norms associated with democracy, such as greater transparency or less corruption, have a negative relationship with death reduction (Cepaluni et al, 2020). Other institutions, including rule of law, horizontal accountability, or institutionalised party systems, exhibit no clear relationship (González, 2020).…”

Section: The Role Of Collaborative Governance In Pandemic Timesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Governing a Pandemic: Assessing the Role of Collaboration on Latin American Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis

Cyr

Bianchi

González

et al. 2021

Journal of Politics in Latin America

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How do governments address complex, cross-sectoral problems, like the COVID-19 pandemic? Why were some Latin American countries more successful at containing the pandemic's most devastating health outcomes? We argue that national governments that were more collaborative in their response to COVID-19 were more successful in reducing death rates. Our original dataset offers a novel attempt to operationalise collaborative governance (CG). We undertake simple statistical tests to measure the relationship between CG and COVID-19-related mortality rates in Latin America. We then choose three case studies to assess whether collaboration was meaningful in practice. Initial evidence suggests governments that pursued CG were more effective at containing mortality rates early on in the pandemic. The collaboration helped to foster cooperation over resources; buy time to prepare for a potential case surge; and produce a unified message regarding what citizens should do to prevent viral spread.

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Section: The Role Of Collaborative Governance In Pandemic Timesmentioning

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Section: The Role Of Collaborative Governance In Pandemic Timesmentioning

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Governing a Pandemic: Assessing the Role of Collaboration on Latin American Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis

Cyr

Bianchi

González

et al. 2021

Journal of Politics in Latin America

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“…Evidence suggests that countries with more democratic political institutions experienced more per-capita deaths than less democratic countries do. One explanation is that democratic political institutions generally have a bureaucratic disadvantage in responding quickly to pandemics (Cepaluni et al 2020). In Europe, divergent national responses to COVID-19 reflect different national preferences and political legitimacy.…”

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Political Orientation and Adherence to Social Distancing during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy

Barbieri,

Bonini

2020

SSRN Journal

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Many governments have implemented social distancing and lockdown measures to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus . Using province-level geolocation data from Italy, we document that political disbelief can limit government policy effectiveness. Residents in provinces leaning towards extreme right-wing parties show lower rates of compliance with social distancing order. We also find that, during the Italian lockdown, provinces with high protest votes virtually disregarded all social distancing orders. On the contrary, in provinces with higher political support for the current political legislation, we found a higher degree of social distancing compliance. These results are robust to controlling for other factors, including time, geography, local COVID-19 cases and deaths, healthcare hospital beds, and other sociodemographic and economic characteristics. Our research shows that bipartisan support and national responsibility are essential to implement and manage social distancing efficiently. From a broader perspective, our findings suggest that partisan politics and discontent with the political class (i.e., protest voting) might significantly affect human health and the economy.

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“…Moreover, in line with [4], they applied the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) as a proxy for the reliability of reported COVID-19 data. [5] showed that more democratic political institutions experienced deaths on a larger per-capita scale and sooner than did less democratic countries, and based on [6], the population size and government health expenditure are strongly related to COVID-19 cases.…”

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The Role of Societal Aspects in the Formation of Official COVID-19 Reports: A Data-Driven Analysis

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Katona

Lantos

et al. 2020

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This paper investigates the role of socioeconomic considerations in the formation of official COVID-19 reports. To this end, we employ a dataset that contains 1,159 preprocessed indicators from the World Bank Group GovData360 and TCdata360 platforms and an additional 8 COVID-19 variables generated based on reports from 138 countries. During the analysis, a rank-correlation-based complex method is used to identify the time- and space-varying relations between pandemic variables and the main topics of World Bank Group platforms. The results not only draw attention to the importance of factors such as air traffic, tourism, and corruption in report formation but also support further discipline-specific research by mapping and monitoring a wide range of such relationships. To this end, an R Notebook is attached that allows for the customization of the analysis and provides up-to-date results.

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Political Regimes and Deaths in the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Governing a Pandemic: Assessing the Role of Collaboration on Latin American Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis

Governing a Pandemic: Assessing the Role of Collaboration on Latin American Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis

Political Orientation and Adherence to Social Distancing during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy

The Role of Societal Aspects in the Formation of Official COVID-19 Reports: A Data-Driven Analysis

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