Description

Covid-19 and Governance focuses on the relationship between governance institutions and approaches to Covid-19 and health outcomes. Bringing together analyses of Covid-19 developments in countries and regions across the world with a wide-angle lens on governance, this volume asks: what works, what hasn’t and isn’t, and why?
Organized by region, the book is structured to follow the spread of Covid-19 in the course of 2020, through Asia, the Middle East, Europe, the Americas, and Africa. The analyses explore a number of key themes, including public health systems, government capability, and trust in government—as well as underlying variables of social cohesion and inequality. This volume combines governance, policies, and politics to bring wide international scope and analytical depth to the study of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Together the authors represent a diverse and formidable database of experience and understanding. They include sociologists, anthropologists, scholars of development studies and public administration, as well as MD specialists in public health and epidemiology. Engaged and free of jargon, this book speaks to a wide global public—including scholars, students, and policymakers—on a topic that has profound and broad appeal.
 
Table of Contents
Introduction: Patterns, confluence, regions
Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Asia
1. China’s fight against Covid-19: Domestic and external implications
Changgang Guo and Wenhao Fan, Shanghai
2. South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Covid-19
Wang Hwi Lee, Suwon
3. China, South Korea, Japan and Covid-19
Ik Ki Kim and Rosung Kwak, Seoul
4. India, Kerala and Covid-19
N.C. Narayanan and Prabhir Vishnu Poruthiyil, Mumbai
5. Nepal and Covid-19
Ratna Mani Nepal, Kathmandu
6. Indonesia and Covid-19: Decentralization and social conflict
Rebecca Meckelburg and Charanpal S. Bal, Salatiga, Java and Perth
7. Thailand and Covid-19: Institutions and social dynamics from below
Chantana Wun’Gaeo and Surichai Wun’Gaeo, Bangkok
Middle East
8. Iran and Covid-19: Institutional configurations
Ali Ashgar Mosleh and Abbas Jong, Tehran
9. Saudi Arabia and Covid-19: Religious institutions
Frank Fanselow, Singapore
Europe
10. The UK and Covid-19
Colin Tyler, Hull
11. Spain and Covid-19
Mariah Miller, Santa Barbara
12. Germany and Covid-19
Markus S. Schulz, Erfurt
13. Turkey and Covid-19: Facing a global crisis during a domestic crisis
Sarp Kurgan, Istanbul
Americas
14. The US, South Korea, and Covid-19: Governance
Hyug Baeg Im, Gwangju
15. The United States and Covid-19: Hairpin turns
Jan Nederveen Pieterse
16. Brazil, South America and Covid-19
Adalberto Cardoso and Thiago Peres, Rio de Janeiro
17. Cuba dancing with Covid-19: Citizenship and resilience
Roberto Zurbano Torres, Havana
18. Nicaragua and Covid-19: Authoritarian indifference
Kai M. Thaler, Santa Barbara
Africa
19. Rwanda and Covid-19: Leadership and resilient health system
Jeanine Condo MD and Edson Rwagasore, MD, Kigali
20. Kenya and Covid-19
Ahmed Kalebi, MD, Nairobi
21. Africa and Covid-19: Ways forward
Nina Callaghan, Mark Swilling and Merin Jacob, Stellenbosch
Crosscutting themes
22. Covid-19 and migrant workers: The Gulf and Singapore
Habibul Khondker, Abu Dhabi
23. Covid-19 and science: Italy and late modernity
Luciano d’Andrea and Andrea Declich, Rome
24. Global Infodemic: Covid-19 and the organization of disinformation
Wasim Khaled and Naushad UzZaman
Conclusion
Habibul Khondker and Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Afterword