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Book Review

Coronavirus politics and governance

Coronavirus politics: the comparative politics and policy of COVID-19, edited by S. Greer, E.J. King, E. M. da Fonseca, and A. Peralta-Santos, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2021, 654 pp., $45.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-472-03862-6

 

Notes

1. Thirty chapters (out of 34 chapters) are either country specific or comparative studies while four chapters cover general topics including introduction, the politics of WHO, state response to the pandemic (Part I), and conclusion (Part V).

2. In fact, this part has five chapters including three country case study chapters and one comparative study chapter. The last chapter is a concluding chapter which is excluded from the counting.

3. Regime is broadly defined by the editors as “the combination of institutions, coalitions, and political norms that govern how politics works” (p. 9).

4. It is found in the Oxford University COVID-19 Government Response Tracker. https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/research/research-projects/covid-19-government-response-tracker.

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Notes on contributors

M. Jae Moon

M. Jae Moon is Dean and Underwood Distinguished Professor of the Department of Public Administration as well as Director of the Institute for Future Government at Yonsei University. He is an elected Fellow of National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) and served as a co-chair of the Infectious Diseases Study Group of the National Research Council of Economics, Humanities, and Social Sciences under the Prime Minister’s Office of South Korea in 2020.

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