ArticleInternational journal of disaster risk reduction : IJDRR2022
Good democratic governance can combat COVID-19 - excess mortality analysis.
Article in International journal of disaster risk reduction : IJDRR, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Governance in Crisis: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Global Health Governance During COVID-19.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Review
- Association of COVID-19 outcomes with measures of institutional and interpersonal trust: an ecological analysis using national data from 61 countries.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Legislative incapacity and underreporting of COVID-19 mortality.Preventive medicine reports · 2024Article
- National governance and excess mortality due to COVID-19 in 213 countries: a retrospective analysis and perspectives on future pandemics.Globalization and health · 2023Review
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Abstract
Some studies claim that democracy is in crisis during the current pandemic while authoritarian countries better combat COVID-19 because they face no tradeoff between freedom and health. These claims, however, are usually supported by unreliable reported data; furthermore, they often overlook an important variation in government effectiveness that is likely to interact with different political regimes. In this paper, I use as the dependent variable more reliable data, excess mortality, which is available for 152 countries, and analyze the interaction effect between regime type and government effectiveness. The results reveal that democratic countries with higher government effectiveness are likely to reduce excess mortality. Democratic countries thus need not give up freedom; they need to improve government effectiveness to combat COVID-19.
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