Routledge Covid-19 and Governance: Crisis Reveals (Routledge Studies in Emerging Societies)

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. Review 'Simply the best and most authoritative set of articles yet produced on the Covid-19 crisis. Global in scope, and written by top-class academic experts, the book provides an essential source for grasping the impact of the pandemic and what accounts for the huge differences in its impact in different states and regions.' Anthony Giddens, Emeritus Professor at the LSE and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, UK 'An imaginative collection of uniformly perceptive studies examining how different countries have coped with the havoc caused by the coronavirus. A most valuable contribution to a comparative understanding of a nationally mediated global problem.' Bhikhu Parekh, Member of the House of Lords, UK About the Author Jan Nederveen Pieterse is Suzanne and Duncan Mellichamp Distinguished Professor of Global Studies and Sociology at University of California Santa Barbara, USA. Haeran Lim is Professor in Political Science and International Relations, Seoul National University, South Korea. Habibul Khondker, MA (Carleton, Ottawa), PhD (Pittsburgh) is Professor of Social Sciences at Zayed University, Abu Dhabi.