Coronavirus Politics: The Comparative Politics And Policy Of COVID-19

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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
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