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Fighting the Disease or Manipulating the Data? Democracy, State Capacity, and the COVID-19 Pandemic

2022-02-24

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We discuss and analyze how regime type and state capacity shape the abilities and incentives of political leaders to respond to COVID-19. We argue that there is likely a complementary relationship between democracy and state capacity, both in terms of mitigating adverse consequences of the pandemic, such as deaths, and the honest reporting of these consequences. Using a recent, global dataset on officially reporte...

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Literature Corpus work: 472cd07e-b9d6-5a56-8fb1-f6a481624e1d
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4019437

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