Falling Flat? The Impact of State Legitimacy, Capacity, and Political Trust on Flattening the Curve of COVID-19
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As countries worldwide struggled to contain the COVID-19 pandemic in March and April of 2020, observers often remarked that countries with higher levels of regime legitimacy, state capacity, and political trust were more likely to curtail the spread of the virus. Remarkably, using quantitative data from 10 different sources, this article finds that this generalizable theory runs counter to expectations. Countries with higher levels of political legitimacy, trust, and capacity experienced greater increases in COVID cases during the onset of the pandemic, albeit the strength of these relationships is modest. To develop generalizable theories predicting virus containment, researchers should turn their attention to unique factors characterizing industrialized democracies that make a virus much harder to contain and expand their scope by using transdisciplinary approaches to understanding the pandemic
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COVID-19, pandemic, political trust, legitimacy, state capacity, Belgium, the United States, Ireland, Switzerland
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DOBBS, Kirstie Lynn.
Falling Flat? The Impact of State Legitimacy, Capacity, and Political Trust on Flattening the Curve of COVID-19.
Medical Research Archives, [S.l.], v. 10, n. 5, june 2022.
ISSN 2375-1924.
Available at: <https://esmed.org/MRA/mra/article/view/2805>. Date accessed: 26 apr. 2024.
doi: https://doi.org/10.18103/mra.v10i5.2805.
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[35] [dataset] Kaufmann D. Kraay A. Worldwide governance indicators, 2020. http://info.worldbank.org/governance/wgi/.
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[41] Worldometer. GDP by country. Accessed April 19, 2020. https://www.worldometers.info/gdp/gdp-by-country/.
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[43] Ivanyna M. Shah, A. How close is your government to its people? Worldwide indicators on localization and decentralization. Economics. 2014; 8, 2014-3. http://dx.doi.org/10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2014-3.
[44] Van Overbeke T. Stadig D. High politics in the low countries: COVID‐19 and the politics of strained multi‐level policy cooperation in Belgium and the Netherlands. European Policy Analysis. 2020; 6(2), 305-317. doi: 10.1002/epa2.1101
[45] Reybrouck, Karel. "Federal Belgium’s Covid-19 Response: dualism and exclusive powers under pressure." Lex-Atlas: Covid-19. May 13, 2021.Federal Belgium’s Covid-19 Response: dualism and exclusive powers under pressure (lexatlas-c19.org). April 4, 2022.
[46] Popelier P. Bursens P. Managing the COVID-19 Crisis in a Divided Belgian Federation: Cooperation Against All Odds. In: Steytler, N. ed. Combatting the COVID-19 Pandemic: Federalism a Boon or Bane? 2021: 88-105.
[47] Camacho AE. Glicksman RL. Structured to fail: lessons from the Trump administration's faulty pandemic planning and Response. Scholarly Commons. 2021 Accessed April 4, 2022. Structured to Fail: Lessons from the Trump Administration's Faulty Pandemic Planning and Response (gwu.edu).
[48] Vazquez M. Klein B. Trump Again Defends Use of the Term China Virus. CNN. March 17, 2020. https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/17/politics/trump-china-coronavirus/index.html. April 4, 2022.
[49] Government of Ireland. COVID Tracker App - Ireland's Coronavirus Contact Tracing App. 2020. Covidtracker.gov.ie. Published in 2020. https://covidtracker.gov.ie/?gclid=Cj0KCQjw9_mDBhCGARIsAN3PaFMaWW1uE4nSxLiD8WtQTCCotKUsYrEI7QRQjeywmOU9N0flkXncqKkaAo55EALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds.
[50] O’Sullivan, Clare. Ireland’s Response to Covid-19. Arcgis Online.April 21, 2021.Ireland's Response to Covid-19 (arcgis.com)). April 4, 2022.
[51] Sager F. Mavrot C. Switzerland's COVID‐19 policy response: Consociational crisis management and neo‐corporatist reopening. European Policy Analysis. 2020; 6(2), 293-304. doi: 10.1002/epa2.1094.
[52] Abboud L J. Miller, and J. Espinoza. How Europe Splintered Over Contact Tracing Apps. Financial Times. May 10, 2020. How Europe splintered over contact tracing apps | Financial Times (ft.com). April 4, 2022.
[53] Boseley, S. Measles is on the Rise in Europe – and Populism Could be to Blame. The Guardian. August 22, 2018. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/22/measles-rise-europe-populism-andrew-wakefield. March 12, 2022.
[54] Sheldon R. Cleghorn N. Penfold C. Brown A. Newmark T. Exploring attitudes to GM food: final report. Food Standards Agency: National Center for Social Research. Published in 2009. Accessed April 4, 2022. http://natcen.ac.uk/media/26838/exploring-attitudes-gm-food.pdf.
[55] Seyd, B. Coronavirus: Trust in Political Figures is at a Low Just as They Need Citizens to Act on their Advice. The Conversation. March 11, 2020. https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-trust-in-political-figures-is-at-a-low-just-as-they-need-citizens-to-act-on-their-advice-133284. March 12, 2022.
[56] Bouvy S. Ceulemans L. Konnova A. Mennens R. Nankova M. Nguyen T. Sandler JP. et al. Uprooting deeper causes of Belgium's lack of pandemic preparedness in the Covid-19 crisis. Transdisciplinary Insights. 2021; 5(1), 7-8. Accessed April 4, 2022. Transdisciplinary Insights: Ingenta Connect Table Of Contents.