The COVID-19 pandemic and authoritarian consolidation in North Africa

Evaluation of the Handling of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Capitalist and Socialist Countries: A Systematic Review

“…This was also supported by a comparison of two European countries with presidential government systems, Italy and France, as well as two countries with federal government systems, Germany and Switzerland [54] .According to Carla Norrlof, 2020, the case of mortality due to the Covid-19 pandemic is much higher in democratic capitalism countries than in socialist countries, which is explained by the fact that in democratic capitalism countries, all policy factors must be based on the international order of democracy, causing policies to be slow to implement [56], while the presidential system of government is more effective because the resulting policies can be directly implemented throughout the country's territory, in contrast to the state system, the real power lies with each state, so synchronization steps are required first between the resulting policies of the state government itself, which is slower in terms of speed/time than the presidential system of government [57,58]. Sammy Badran, Bryan Turnbull, 2022, the similarity in handling the Covid pandemic in both socialist and democratic countries, both carry out social control for their people, control the internet together, manipulate information about Covid victims within the territory of their respective countries, this can understandable because both socialist capitalism and democratic efforts to prevent unrest due to the COVID-19 pandemic and can be used as a means of propaganda, but can also be negative if used to control or weaken political opponents [61].…”