This article seeks to assess and explain territorial policy dynamics in five European
countries—Italy, Spain, Germany, France and the United Kingdom—from the start of the …

The multitude of national strategies used against the COVID-19 pandemic makes it
necessary to review and synthesize them in order to identify potential gaps and …

Personalisation is the most relevant political phenomenon of our time. After the decline of
structural and ideological foundations of Western democracies, a radical shift from collective …

The comparatively poor US response to COVID-19 was not due to federal inaction or a
flawed federal system per se but to party polarization and presidential and gubernatorial …

The Bundestag is a key institution in the parliamentary democracy of Germany. Assessing its
role in the Covid-19 crisis considers how it adapted to secure parliamentary continuity …

This article understands COVID-19 as an eruptive event with severe effects on many policy
fields beyond (public) health. Based on this assumption, we consider the pandemic as a …

The article introduces the special issue on 'The First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic in
Germany'. Besides a brief description and analysis of COVID-19 management in Germany in …

Der Beitrag thematisiert die distributiven und regulatorischen wirtschaftspolitischen
Maßnahmen der deutschen Bundesregierung ab dem Frühjahr 2020 im Zeichen der Covid …

COVID-19 constituted an unprecedented “transboundary mega crisis”(Boin et al. 2020) that
referred to all spheres of the states and societies. Originated in China and then spreading …

Belgium is considered as a very divided multinational and federal state, with conflicts
between representatives of its two main language communities regularly threatening its …