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This book examines the public health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Asia-Oceania region and their implications for democratic backsliding.
Table des matières
1. Introduction: Democracy and State Capacity during Times of Crisis 2. Policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: An aggregate level comparative analysis 3. COVID-19 and Democracy: Creeping Autocratization? 4. Closing the borders to COVID19: Democracy, politics and resilience in Australia and New Zealand 5. Containing COVID-19 in South Korea and Taiwan: State capacity and geopolitics 6. Navigating the Early Impacts of COVID-19: South Pacific Viewpoints from Fiji and Samoa 7. The Pandemic and Competitive Authoritarianism in India 8. Economy First: Indonesia's Calculated Underutilization of State Capacities and Democratic Resources in the Early Phase of COVID-19 9. COVID-19 in the Philippines and Cambodia: Rising Autocracy and Weak State Capacity 10. Singapore and Hong Kong: The Effect of Trust in High-capacity Hybrid Regimes 11. Proactive Responsiveness and Institutionalization in Vietnam's Offensive Against COVID-19 12. China's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Navigating Internal and External Challenges 13. Conclusion
A propos de l'auteur
Aurel Croissant is Professor of Political Science at Heidelberg University, Germany. His research focusses on issues of democratization, authoritarianism, civil-military relations and Asian politics.
Olli Hellmann is Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Waikato, Aotearoa New Zealand. He has previously published on democratization and autocratic regime resilience in East Asia, including in Party Politics and Democratization.
Résumé
This book examines the public health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Asia-Oceania region and their implications for democratic backsliding.
