Democracy and covid-19 outcomes: Role of innovation ecosystems for inclusive, disruptive advances in five asian case studies

Gokhan Karabulut; Klaus F. Zimmermann; Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin; Asli Cansin Doker

Democracy and covid-19 outcomes: Role of innovation ecosystems for inclusive, disruptive advances in five asian case studies

Gokhan Karabulut
, Klaus F. Zimmermann
, Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin
, Asli Cansin Doker

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Abstract

More democratic countries are often expected to fail at providing a fast, strong, and effective response when facing a crisis such as COVID-19. This could result in higher infections and more negative health effects, but hard evidence to prove this claim is missing for the new disease. Studying the association with five different democracy measures, this study shows that while the infection rates of the disease do indeed appear to be higher for more democratic countries so far, their observed case fatality rates are lower. There is also a negative association between case fatality rates and government attempts to censor media. However, such censorship relates positively to the infection rate.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Maastricht
Publisher	UNU-MERIT
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2021

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Series	UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Number	004
ISSN	1871-9872

JEL classifications

c30 - "Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables: General"
d72 - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
i19 - Health: Other
p16 - Capitalist Systems: Political Economy

Keywords

Democracy
COVID-19
Coronavirus
Pandemic
Lockdown
Media Censoring

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Democracy and covid-19 outcomes: Role of innovation ecosystems for inclusive, disruptive advances in five asian case studies

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