By any standard, 2022 was a year of crises, including the continuing COVID-19 pandemic,
war in Ukraine, worldwide inflation, and a range of local and global climate emergencies …

Countries around the world are still struggling due to the COVID-19 pandemic. No exception
with Indonesia, a developing country with the highest mortality rate and the lowest number of …

This paper studies the role of free media in how governments and the public responded to
the COVID-19 pandemic. We first document the presence of policy and behavioural …

The aim of this chapter is to examine the conditions for the practice of critical journalism in
Denmark, Iceland, and Sweden, during the Covid-19 pandemic. We focus on two aspects …

This thesis consists of three independent chapters that explore aspects of tax policy and the
determinants of responsiveness to a public health shock. Chapter 1 explores the importance …

We study the provision of information by local governments that supports individual
compliance with nationwide regulation, and how this provision relates to the electoral …

Notwithstanding the growing number of scientific contributions suggesting that politics
matters for health care decision-making, the “political economy of health and health care” is …

The world has entered the 4.0 industrial revolution era where everything is going quickly,
accurately, creatively, transparently, and efficiently. Indonesia is also one of the countries …