Pandemics and Political Performance
The huge variation in how countries have performed during the pandemic points to deeper underlying political and governance issues that have now come fully into view. In many countries, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean, the road ahead will be long and difficult.
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STANFORD/GENEVA – The COVID-19 pandemic has created a laboratory for testing different governance systems in the face of a public-health crisis, ultimately revealing massive variance in country performance. For example, countries in East Asia (China, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan) tended to do a better job of controlling the pandemic than did many countries in the Americas and Europe.