Policy Styles and Trust in the Age of Pandemics

Nikolaos Zahariadis is Mertie Buckman Chair and Professor of International Studies at Rhodes College, USA. Evangelia Petridou is Associate Professor of Political Science at Mid Sweden University, Sweden. Theofanis Exadaktylos is Reader in European Politics at the Department of Politics, University of Surrey, UK. Jörgen Sparf is Associate Professor in Sociology and a founding member of the Risk and Crisis Research Centre at Mid Sweden University, Sweden.

Part 1. Introduction 1. The Politics of National Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic 2. Policy Styles and Policy Making During Times of Crisis Part 2. Centralized Responses 3. Policy Styles and the Chinese COVID-19 Response 4. Turkey’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic 5. Centralization and Lockdown: The Greek Response 6. Kenya’s Response to COVID-19: Lockdown and Stringent Enforcement Part 3. Centripetal Responses 7. Norwegian Corporatism: A Centripetal National Response to the Pandemic 8. New Zealand COVID Response: Leadership, Communication and Trust Part 4. Centrifugal Responses 9. Of "Herd Immunity" and Inoculation Investment: The British Response to COVID-19 10. The Breakdown of Cooperative Federalism: Brazil’s Response to The Covid-19 Pandemic 11. The US Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Incoherent Leadership, Fractured Federalism, and Squandered Capacity Part 5. Decentralized Responses 12. Following the Public Health Agency’s Guidelines: The Swedish Approach Part 6. Comparing Responses 13. Different Governments, Different Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic? Concluding Remarks and the Way Forward