scholarly journals Political institutions and policy responses during a crisis

2021 ◽  
Vol 185 ◽  
pp. 647-670
Author(s):  
Gaurav Chiplunkar ◽  
Sabyasachi Das
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
Policy Responses

Political regimes and deaths in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel Cepaluni ◽  
Michael T. Dorsch ◽  
Réka Branyiczki
Keyword(s):  
Instrumental Variables ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Political Regimes ◽  
Estimation Techniques ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
Quantitative Examination ◽  
Per Capita

This article provides a quantitative examination of the link between political institutions and deaths during the first 100 days of the COVID-19 pandemic. We demonstrate that countries with more democratic political institutions experienced deaths on a larger per capita scale than less democratic countries. The result is robust to the inclusion of many relevant controls, a battery of estimation techniques and estimation with instrumental variables for the institutional measures. Additionally, we examine the extent to which COVID-19 deaths were impacted heterogeneously by policy responses across types of political institutions. Policy responses in democracies were less effective in reducing deaths in the early stages of the crisis. The results imply that democratic political institutions may have a disadvantage in responding quickly to pandemics.

Information, peer comparison and social interdependence: theorising the impacts of COVID-19 on Gulf domestic politics

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 423-430
Author(s):  
Justin J. Gengler
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Social Interdependence ◽  
Mena Countries ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Governance Indicators ◽  
Individual Comparison ◽  
Gulf States ◽  
Universal Nature

This article theorizes three layers of impacts of the Coronavirus crisis on internal GCC politics, and then identifies potential causal mechanisms operating at each level. A first and primary layer concerns governance, and revolves around the state’s performance in managing the virus outbreak. A secondary level relates to scarcity and inequality, and is linked to the state’s handling of economic and social knock-on effects of the pandemic. A tertiary level is connected to peer comparison, and involves GCC states’ (lack of) coordination of political responses at the regional or sub-regional level. Several key factors emerge from the investigation as potent catalysts for new political dynamics in the Arab Gulf states. One is the unusual availability and clarity of information about state performance surrounding Covid-19, which stands in stark contrast to the general lack of reliable governance indicators for GCC and other MENA countries. Another is the universal nature of the Coronavirus shock, which allows Gulf citizens and residents to make direct comparisons of state performance and policy responses that may reveal a disproportionately negative (or positive) personal or collective outcome. Third, the person-to-person transmission of Covid-19 shatters the traditional social and geographical segregation of Gulf societies, with once-isolated communities now directly and profoundly impacted by each other’s behavior, preferences, and incentives. Finally, variation in resource endowments and political institutions across the GCC precludes easy regional harmonization of post-Covid social and economic policy, once more inviting individual comparison with relatively advantaged or disadvantaged peers in neighboring states.

Local Political Institutions and First-Mover Policy Responses to COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 523-541
Author(s):  
Mirya R. Holman ◽  
Emily M. Farris ◽  
Jane Lawrence Sumner
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Local Political Institutions ◽  
First Mover

scholarly journals Political Institutions and Policy Responses During a Crisis

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gaurav Chiplunkar ◽  
Sabyasachi Das
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
Policy Responses

Telecommunications Reform in Mexico from a Comparative Perspective

2004 ◽  
Vol 46 (03) ◽  
pp. 83-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Mariscal
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
The United States ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
The Political ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
Telecommunications Reform ◽  
Playing Field ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Policy Context

Abstract This paper examines the process of reform in the Mexican telecommunications sector and makes comparisons with similar processes in the United States, New Zealand, and Brazil. Differences in policy responses are explained by the structure of the political institutions and the policy context in any given country. The policy lessons to be drawn from the regulatory experiences examined are that the sequence and the pace of reform influence policy outcomes. The speed with which the Mexican reform was carried out led to a lack of the institutional and legal support necessary to create a level competitive playing field. The permanence of a vertically integrated firm in the Mexican market, moreover, introduced consequential costs to the regulation of the industry. The results of this paper support the theoretical argument that privatization, in itself, does not guarantee the development of the sector and point to the need to attain a more effective regulation of competition in telecommunications.

Political Institutions under Dictatorship

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Gandhi
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions

Political Institutions and Party-Directed Corruption in South America

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel W. Gingerich
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Political Institutions

Confrontational and preventative policy responses to terrorism: Anger wants a fight and fear wants "them" to go away

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Scott Morgan ◽  
Linda J. Skitka ◽  
Christopher W. Bauman ◽  
Nicholas P. Aramovich
Keyword(s):  
Policy Responses

Global Restructuring, Knowledge and Learning

2004 ◽  
pp. 66-76
Author(s):  
E. Hershberg
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Lower Cost ◽  
International Competitiveness ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Global Competitiveness ◽  
Global Restructuring ◽  
Intensive Exploitation ◽  
High Road

The influence of globalization on international competitiveness is considered in the article. Two strategies of economic growth are pointed out: the low road, that is producing more at lower cost and lower wages, with increasingly intensive exploitation of labor and environment, and the high road, that is upgrading capabilities in order to produce better basing on knowledge. Restrictions for developing countries trying to reach global competitiveness are formulated. Special attention is paid to the concept of upgrading and opportunities of joining transnational value chains. The importance of learning and forming social and political institutions for successful upgrading of the economy is stressed.

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