Democracy, State Capacity, and COVID-19 Related School Closures

Cronert, Axel

doi:10.33774/apsa-2020-jf671-v4

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“…Regarding COVID-19, most commonly studied are government mitigation policies (e.g. Cronert 2020, Frey et al 2020, Petersen 2020, Shvetsova et al 2020, Trein 2020.…”

Section: Existing Workmentioning

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Democratic Regimes and Epidemic Deaths

McMann¹,

Tisch²

2021

SSRN Journal

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Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) is a new approach to conceptualization and measurement of democracy. The headquarters -the V-Dem Institute -is based at the University of Gothenburg with 23 staff. The project includes a worldwide team with 5 Principal Investigators, 19 Project Managers, 33 Regional Managers, 134 Country Coordinators, Research Assistants, and 3,500 Country Experts. The V-Dem project is one of the largest ever social science research-oriented data collection programs.

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“…Regarding COVID-19, most commonly studied are government mitigation policies (e.g. Cronert 2020, Frey et al 2020, Petersen 2020, Shvetsova et al 2020, Trein 2020.…”

Section: Existing Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Democratic Regimes and Epidemic Deaths

McMann¹,

Tisch²

2021

SSRN Journal

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“…Among studies measuring the impact of different levels of democracy on Covid-19 outcomes, the most commonly studied outcomes are government mitigation policies. 6 However, as it is difficult to know which mitigation policies are the most effective since the pandemic is not yet over, this is not the preferred outcome to investigate. Fewer studies have examined the impact of democracy on Covid-19 deaths, 7 and none, to our knowledge, have yet examined vaccination rates.…”

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Democratic Institutions and Practices and the Impact on Covid-19 Outcomes: Global State of Democracy 2021 Thematic Paper

McMann¹,

Tisch²

2021

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Despite the narratives of authoritarian states, the concerns of journalists and public intellectuals in democracies, and the results of some early studies, this paper shows that democracies fare no worse than authoritarian regimes in combating the Covid-19 pandemic. Democracy is not associated with higher Covid-19 death rates, nor is it associated with lower vaccination rates. Moreover, among many democratic countries, high levels of key democratic components -such as fundamental rights and impartial administration—seem to help prevent deaths and boost vaccination rates. These conclusions are based on statistical analyses of democracy components, as measured by International IDEA’s Global State of Democracy (GSoD) Indices, and the reported Covid-19 death rates and Covid-19 vaccination rates in all countries of the world with a population of at least one million people.

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“…Yet while different school (and ECEC) closure strategies have been linked to general pandemic prevention strategies in the literature, the 'less drastic', 'social'-distancing interventions received little attention in public-health research (Viner et al 2020). Policy-oriented studies have focused on timing (Cronert 2020), yet the exact types of closures and decisively also re-openings are yet to be specified. This is precisely where our research interest sets in, as integrating the public-health perspective with the childcare-policy perspective can lead to a deeper understanding of the responses, especially from a care perspective.…”

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Childcare-policy responses in the COVID-19 pandemic: unpacking cross-country variation

Blum

Dobrotić

2020

European Societies

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From mid-March 2020, childcare services and schools were closed around the globe in the fight of the COVID-19 pandemic. This situation, unprecedented in the history of modern welfare states, brought striking crosscountry differences in pandemic childcare-policy responses. They varied particularly in the reopening phaseboth in being more lenient or strict, and in being universal or selective. This article presents a conceptual framework that allows to unpack and classify variations in the design of immediate childcare-policy responses to COVID-19, which became (primarily) driven by public-health-related goals and therefore transverse existing conceptualisations. We argue that specific responses are resulting from a country-specific combination of pandemic prevention strategy (either focused on high-risk groups or the whole population), and childcarerelated policy concerns (e.g. educational goals, or work-family reconciliation). The distinct childcare-policy responses are then developed, and empirically illustrated on the basis of data collected for 28 European countries. This provides a basis for future research into the crosscountry variation of responses, as well as gender and social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Democracy, State Capacity, and COVID-19 Related School Closures

Cited by 11 publications

References 25 publications

Democratic Regimes and Epidemic Deaths

Democratic Regimes and Epidemic Deaths

Democratic Institutions and Practices and the Impact on Covid-19 Outcomes: Global State of Democracy 2021 Thematic Paper

Childcare-policy responses in the COVID-19 pandemic: unpacking cross-country variation

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