Jean-Louis Denis,Susan Usher,Johanne Préval
Jean-Louis Denis
Recent work on health system strengthening suggests that a combination of leadership and policy capacity is essential to achieve transformation and improvement. Policy capacity and leadership are mutually constitutive but difficult to assem...
Nudges against pandemics: Sweden's COVID-19 containment strategy in perspective [0.03%]
从瑞典的新冠肺炎疫情防控策略看轻推理论在大流行病防控中的应用
Jon Pierre
Jon Pierre
Sweden's strategy to contain the COVID-19 pandemic stands out internationally as more liberal in terms of not ordering a complete lockdown of society. Sweden kept its primary schools, daycare centers and industries largely open. The governm...
Stuck in neutral? Federalism, policy instruments, and counter-cyclical responses to COVID-19 in the United States [0.03%]
陷入中立？美国联邦制、政策工具和应对COVID-19的逆周期反应
Philip Rocco,Daniel Béland,Alex Waddan
Philip Rocco
Federalism plays a foundational role in structuring public expectations about how the United States will respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, as both an unprecedented public-health crisis and an economic recession. As in prior crises, state go...
When COVID-19, constitutional crisis, and political deadlock meet: the Israeli case from a disproportionate policy perspective [0.03%]
当COVID-19、宪法危机和政治僵局相遇时：从政策失衡视角看以色列案例
Moshe Maor,Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan,David Chinitz
Moshe Maor
This article describes the efforts made by the Israeli government to contain the spread of COVID-19, which were implemented amidst a constitutional crisis and a yearlong electoral impasse, under the leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin Net...
Caner Bakir
Caner Bakir
This article focuses on how the Turkish state has been responding to limit the public health effects of COVID-19 pandemic to date. It aims to explain and understand the introduction, implementation and effect of health policy instrument mix...
Policymaking in a low-trust state: legitimacy, state capacity, and responses to COVID-19 in Hong Kong [0.03%]
低信任状态下的政策制定：合法性、国家能力与香港的新冠肺炎应对措施
Kris Hartley,Darryl S L Jarvis
Kris Hartley
With indiscriminate geographic and socio-economic reach, COVID-19 has visited destruction of life and livelihoods on a largely unprepared world and can arguably be declared the new millennium's most trying test of state capacity. Government...
Trust, but customize: federalism's impact on the Canadian COVID-19 response [0.03%]
信任但要定制化：联邦制对加拿大新冠肺炎应对举措的影响
Andrea Riccardo Migone
Andrea Riccardo Migone
This article explores how Canadian federalism, with its complex mix of competencies, and the country's punctuated gradualism policy style interface with urgent, complex decision-making like the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that while punctuat...
Policy learning and crisis policy-making: quadruple-loop learning and COVID-19 responses in South Korea [0.03%]
韩国的政策学习与危机决策：新冠肺炎疫情应对中的四重循环学习政策
Sabinne Lee,Changho Hwang,M Jae Moon
Sabinne Lee
This study aims to analyze how the Korean government has been effective in taming COVID-19 without forced interruptions (i.e. lockdowns) of citizens' daily lives. Extending the theory of organizational learning, we propose the quadruple-loo...
J J Woo
J J Woo
Despite its excellent public healthcare system and efficient public administration, Singapore has been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. While fatalities in the city-state remain low and contact tracing efforts have been largely s...
Policy design and state capacity in the COVID-19 emergency in Italy: if you are not prepared for the (un)expected, you can be only what you already are [0.03%]
意大利新冠疫情期间的政策设计与国家能力：如果未准备好（不）预期情况，就只能成为原来的自己
Giliberto Capano
Giliberto Capano
Italy was the first large epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Western world. Since the country has not had any serious experience with this kind of disease in recent decades, its response has been indicative of a first reaction to an ...