Coronavirus Politics : The Comparative Politics and Policy of COVID-19

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. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents 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 Contributors Index COVID-19 is probably the most significant global crisis of any of our lifetimes. The numbers involved have been stupefying, whether they speak of infection and mortality, the scale of public health measures such as mobility restrictions, or the economic consequences for unemployment and public sector spending. A significant amount of research has already been published on COVID-19, with a focus on its medical and epidemiological dimensions but also social science country reports and monitoring projects that are essentially descriptive. The objective of this book is to identify 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. The editors 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 "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." -- Back cover COVID-19 is the most significant global crisis of any of ourlifetimes. The numbers have been stupefying, whether of infectionand mortality, the scale of public health measures, or the economicconsequences of shutdown. Coronavirus Politics identifieskey threads in the global comparative discussion that continue toshed light on COVID-19 and shape debates about what it means forscholarship in health and comparative politics. Editors Scott L.Greer, Elizabeth J. King, Elize Massard da Fonseca, and AndréPeralta-Santos bring together over 30 authors versed in politicsand the health issues in order to understand the health policydecisions, the public health interventions, the social policydecisions, their interactions, and the reasons. The book's coverageis global, with a wide range of key and exemplary countries, andcontains a mixture of comparative, thematic, and templated countrystudies. All go beyond reporting and monitoring to developexplanations that draw on the authors' expertise while engaging instructured conversations across the book