Mélany Barragán   Al igual que el resto del planeta, Honduras se ha enfrentado al desafío de combatir la pandemia del coronavirus.  Con una población aproximada de nueve millones y medio de habitantes, las autoridades gubernamentales del país centroamericano han...

Fabian Burkhardt   With around 380 000 confirmed cases of Covid-19 by the end of May, Russia ranks third in the world after the United States and Brazil. But the Covid-19 pandemic was only one among multiple major challenges the Russian executive had to deal with...

László Szerencsés   FIDESZ has been in power since 2010 and enjoys strong institutional stability with two-thirds constitutional supermajority in the Hungarian Parliament. Similarly, the economic environment has been stable when the coronavirus hit the country,...

Karabekir Akkoyunlu   To make sense of the Turkish government’s response to the Covid-19 outbreak, we must put it in the context of the country’s dramatic transition through a chain of crises over the past few years. In July 2016, Turkey suffered a failed military...

Aline Burni and Benedikt Erforth   As of May 6, France is among the European countries hit hardest by the Coronavirus outbreak, with 25,531 confirmed deaths, ranking only behind Italy (29,315), the UK (29,427) and Spain (25,613) in the region[1]. In Europe, the first...

Luis Bernardo Mejía-Guinand     1.Introduction   Few days after the first COVID-19 patient was confirmed in Colombia, both the government party Centro Democrático, and the opposition parties, asked President Duque to decree a state of emergency to...

Yanina Welp   Alberto Fernández, a peronist leader from the Justicialista Party (PJ) took office on December 10, 2019, after winning the presidential elections as candidate for the Everyone’s Front coalition. Former president Mauricio Macri (2015-2019) from the...

Antonio Benasaglio Berlucchi   The spread of the new Coronavirus in Japan has been slower and apparently less severe than in other countries. However, the growing number of infections urges government’s rapid intervention to contain the epidemic and to limit...

Fortunato Musella   In emergency times monocratic actors strengthen their position. Also in Italy, although the Constituents have been very cautious in providing with norms on possible suspension of parliamentary form of government after the end of fascist...