This article reviews and evaluates recent comparative social science scholarship on
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In late summer 2015, Sweden embarked on one of the largest self-described humanitarian
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COVID-19 is the biggest public health and economic disaster of our time. It has posed the
same threat across the globe, yet countries have responded very differently and some have …

In The Wisdom of Whores, epidemiologist Elizabeth Pisani brings honesty, wit and startling
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the sudden onset of novel coronavirus in early 2020 and, second, to explain why that …

Background Researchers have long recognized the importance of a central government's
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This article briefly surveys the history of pandemics in the West, contesting long-held
assumptions that epidemics sparked hatred and blame of the 'Other', and that it was worse …