How do political institutions influence crisis management? By comparing responses to
COVID-19 in China and South Korea, this article argues that different political institutions …

Preexisting political institutions influence governments' responses to public health crises in
different ways, creating national variations. This article investigates how state capacity, a …

The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed a challenge to state capacities on all countries of the
world and a genuine test of their abilities of opportunity management. In comparison, China …

How did China construct effective crisis governance systems to cope with a transboundary
crisis like COVID-19? By integrating policy regime and campaign theories, this article …

With indiscriminate geographic and socio-economic reach, COVID-19 has visited
destruction of life and livelihoods on a largely unprepared world and can arguably be …

Consistency in crisis communication is a key aspect of effective political leadership during
crises, but can be difficult in multilevel systems due to the number of leaders and …

Governance capacity and legitimacy as two important dimensions in crisis management are
crucial for preparing for, making sense of, handling, and learning from crises like …

Korea and Japan, neighboring democratic countries in Northeast Asia, announced their first
COVID-19 cases in January 2020 and witnessed similar patterns of disease spread but …

Existing commentaries on government responses to COVID-19 have focused on such
factors as competent leadership, policy instruments, or cultural dispositions. Yet, few have …

Why do some countries more effectively respond to crises than others? This paper compares
China's relatively effective response to the 2002–3 SARS outbreak with Taiwan's relatively …