Sorry it took me so long: Latin America and rapid governments’ response to COVID-19
Wen facing the COVID-19 pandemic, what was key to governments’ response velocity throughout Latin America? The region had more information on what to do to prevent the disease from spreading itself and social isolation was the most recommended measure to avoid contamination. Still, Latin American co...
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2020-01-01
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| description | Wen facing the COVID-19 pandemic, what was key to governments’ response velocity throughout Latin America? The region had more information on what to do to prevent the disease from spreading itself and social isolation was the most recommended measure to avoid contamination. Still, Latin American countries varied greatly on how fast they adopted strict social isolation measures. We deploy an explanatory work on which institutional designs collaborates with higher delay in governments’ adoption of these measures. Among the institutional variables considered, we find that our variable of interest (delay) correlates strongly and positively with democracy, negatively with concentration of power, and positively with GDP per capita. These might suggest that autocrats faced less institutional and moral constraints to act, while democratic leaders dealing with pluralism and accountability faced higher costs to implement such measures. Due to the small sample, we next investigate some countries’ experience looking for examples for the found correlations. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-9655ea97ee7a4326b7e473b9351409782025-02-06T23:31:43ZporUniversidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS)Ciências Sociais Unisinos2177-62292020-01-0156211613010.4013/csu.2020.56.2.01Sorry it took me so long: Latin America and rapid governments’ response to COVID-19Ian Rebouças BatistaAmanda DomingosRodrigo LinsWen facing the COVID-19 pandemic, what was key to governments’ response velocity throughout Latin America? The region had more information on what to do to prevent the disease from spreading itself and social isolation was the most recommended measure to avoid contamination. Still, Latin American countries varied greatly on how fast they adopted strict social isolation measures. We deploy an explanatory work on which institutional designs collaborates with higher delay in governments’ adoption of these measures. Among the institutional variables considered, we find that our variable of interest (delay) correlates strongly and positively with democracy, negatively with concentration of power, and positively with GDP per capita. These might suggest that autocrats faced less institutional and moral constraints to act, while democratic leaders dealing with pluralism and accountability faced higher costs to implement such measures. Due to the small sample, we next investigate some countries’ experience looking for examples for the found correlations.http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=93868583002government’s delaycovid19political institutions |
| spellingShingle | Ian Rebouças Batista Amanda Domingos Rodrigo Lins Sorry it took me so long: Latin America and rapid governments’ response to COVID-19 Ciências Sociais Unisinos government’s delay covid 19 political institutions |
| title | Sorry it took me so long: Latin America and rapid governments’ response to COVID-19 |
| title_full | Sorry it took me so long: Latin America and rapid governments’ response to COVID-19 |
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| title_short | Sorry it took me so long: Latin America and rapid governments’ response to COVID-19 |
| title_sort | sorry it took me so long latin america and rapid governments response to covid 19 |
| topic | government’s delay covid 19 political institutions |
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