What matters the most in curbing early COVID‐19 mortality? A cross‐country necessary condition analysis

Yan, Bo; Liu, Yao; Chen, Bin; Zhang, Xiaomin; Wu, Long

doi:10.1111/padm.12873

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“…Similarly, Liu et al (2022) find that while "agility" was a crucial factor for increasing robustness, decentralization was a negative factor; a finding that runs counter to the claim about bounded autonomy.…”

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confidence: 75%

“…For example, Cristofoli et al (2022) finds that there is no single model for robust governance and that while some configurations support theoretical expectations, others do not. Similarly, Liu et al (2022) find that while “agility” was a crucial factor for increasing robustness, decentralization was a negative factor; a finding that runs counter to the claim about bounded autonomy.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…Liu et al (2022), in this special issue, examine COVID‐19 responses across 110 countries using a necessary condition analysis to analyze the important factors contributing to or ameliorating COVID‐19 mortality. A necessary condition is a condition that must be present at a certain threshold for a particular outcome to occur.…”

Section: Strategies For Advancing the Robust Governance Paradigmmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Lund and Andersen observe that this ability to deactivate some professional norms while activating others is an essential feature of a response that exhibits dynamic resilience. Liu et al (2022), in this special issue, examine COVID-19 responses across 110 countries using a necessary condition analysis to analyze the important factors contributing to or ameliorating COVID-19 mortality. A necessary condition is a condition that must be present at a certain threshold for a particular outcome to occur.…”

Section: Bounded Autonomymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Public administration and politics meet turbulence: The search for robust governance responses

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Sørensen

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2022

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Public governance has always been challenged by turbulence, defined as "situations where events, demands, and support interact and change in highly variable, inconsistent, unexpected or unpredictable ways" (Ansell & Trondal, 2017, p. 1). Social conflicts, economic recession, war, and political leadership contests create turmoil and chaos to which governments aim to respond with a mixture of repression, concession, reform, and regime change to maintain or restore some form of social, economic, and political order. Political philosophers such as Machiavelli and Hobbes depicted history as a circular movement where the rise of relatively stable regimes predicated on the excise of hard power ultimately gives way to decadence, corruption, and ruin that erode the social and political order. In contrast, Hegel and Marx portrayed history as a linear trajectory governed by the rational unfolding of a dialectics whereby new, contradicting developments challenge the old, stable structures, thus leading to turbulent transitions that bring society to higher and higher stages. Despite their different views on history, they all agreed that order is temporary and invariably disturbed by short spells of crisis and heightened turbulence occurring at regular intervals but tending to foster a new period of relatively stable rule.Today, there seems to be a new sense that turbulence has become a chronic and endemic condition for modern governance. This new condition cannot be traced to any single factor, arising instead from multiple interacting developments. A first factor is that acute or creeping crises seem to be arising more frequently, affecting a wider range of sectors, spilling across political boundaries, and possibly producing multiple interacting crises (dubbed "poly-crisis" by Zeitlin et al., 2019). A second factor is how social, economic, and political interactions among widely distributed, multilevel parties are accelerating-producing interactions of surprising speed, scale, and scope (Hong & Lee, 2018). Communication and information technologies create lightning-fast information exchanges demanding a rapid and timely response to far-flung citizens, suppliers, stakeholders, and decision-makers who may not have even been part of the administrative picture until recently. Keeping up with potentially destabilizing, mediatized events can easily devolve into a constant stream of fire drills (Cottle, 2006). A third source of turbulence arises from an intensification of political conflict that challenges existing norms and mechanisms of conflict mediation. While public organizations are familiar with politics and conflict, they must now adapt to shifting political issues, polarized populations, rapid leadership turnover, clashing reform agendas, and uncertain planning horizons-sometimes all at once (Kriesi et al., 2012).Although the concept of turbulence implies the need to respond and adapt to change, it refers to a certain kind of adaptation and certain kind of change. When change is slow and steady, when shifts and trends c...

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Public administration and politics meet turbulence: The search for robust governance responses

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2022

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“…A delayed public-health response concerned the number of days from January 1, 2020 until a country first implemented any of nine containment and closure policies [45]. Specifically, OxCGRT provides researchers with nine indicators recording information on the enactment of containment and closure policies: school closing, workplace closing, cancel public events, restrictions on gatherings, close public transport, stay at home requirements, restrictions on internal movement, international travel controls, and facial coverings [46].…”

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Why were some countries more successful than others in curbing early COVID-19 mortality impact? A cross-country configurational analysis

Chen¹,

Liu²,

Yan³

et al. 2023

PLoS ONE

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Why was there considerable variation in initial COVID-19 mortality impact across countries? Through a configurational lens, this paper examines which configurations of five conditions—a delayed public-health response, past epidemic experience, proportion of elderly in population, population density, and national income per capita—influence early COVID-19 mortality impact measured by years of life lost (YLL). A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) of 80 countries identifies four distinctive pathways associated with high YLL rate and four other different pathways leading to low YLL rate. Results suggest that there is no singular “playbook”—a set of policies that countries can follow. Some countries failed differently, whereas others succeeded differently. Countries should take into account their situational contexts to adopt a holistic response strategy to combat any future public-health crisis. Regardless of the country’s past epidemic experience and national income levels, a speedy public-health response always works well. For high-income countries with high population density or past epidemic experience, they need to take extra care to protect elderly populations who may otherwise overstretch healthcare capacity.

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Necessary condition analysis (NCA): review of research topics and guidelines for good practice

2023

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Necessary condition analysis (NCA) is an increasingly used or suggested method in many business and management disciplines including, for example, entrepreneurship, human resource management, international business, marketing, operations, public and nonprofit management, strategic management, and tourism. In the light of this development, our work delivers a review of the topics analyzed with NCA or in which NCA is proposed as a method. The review highlights the tremendous possibilities of using NCA, which hopefully encourages other researchers to try the method. To support researchers in future NCA studies, this article also provides detailed guidelines about how to best use NCA. These cover eight topics: theoretical justification, meaningful data, scatter plot, ceiling line, effect size, statistical test, bottleneck analysis, and further descriptions of NCA.

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What matters the most in curbing early COVID‐19 mortality? A cross‐country necessary condition analysis

Cited by 9 publications

References 78 publications

Public administration and politics meet turbulence: The search for robust governance responses

Public administration and politics meet turbulence: The search for robust governance responses

Why were some countries more successful than others in curbing early COVID-19 mortality impact? A cross-country configurational analysis

Necessary condition analysis (NCA): review of research topics and guidelines for good practice

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