Markus B. Siewert, Stefan Wurster, Luca Messerschmidt, Cindy Cheng and Tim Büthe As of mid June 2020, approximately 188,500 people have been infected by the novel COVID-19 virus in Germany ultimately resulting in around 8,800 deaths.[1] Even though COVID-19...
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Special report: Coronavirus outbreak, presidents’ responses, and institutional consequences
The Presidency, Federalism and the COVID-19 Response in the US
Jun 23, 2020 | Special report: Coronavirus outbreak, presidents’ responses, and institutional consequences
Royce Carroll With nearly 120,000 deaths and over 2 million cases to date, the US has emerged as one of the hardest-hit countries from the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite having some of the earliest documented cases and highest baseline risks, the US response has...
A Small Step in the Right Direction: Congress, Trump, and the Inspectors General
Jun 16, 2020 | Special report: Coronavirus outbreak, presidents’ responses, and institutional consequences
Andrew Rudalevige This month saw the latest salvo in the Trump administration’s war against Congressional oversight – but this time, for once, it was fired from Capitol Hill. Even more surprisingly, it came from the Republican Senate, which despite its...
Perú: El Ejecutivo en la lucha contra el COVID-19 y el aislamiento político
Jun 11, 2020 | Special report: Coronavirus outbreak, presidents’ responses, and institutional consequences, Special Reports
Milagros Campos Martín Vizcarra es un presidente sin partido político y sin bancada en el Congreso. Fue el Primer Vice Presidente de Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, a quien sucedió tras su renuncia en marzo de 2018, luego que se frustrarse su destitución por incapacidad...
La gestión del Covid19 en Honduras: punto de partida, políticas y efectos
Jun 4, 2020 | Special report: Coronavirus outbreak, presidents’ responses, and institutional consequences
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...
Executive politics in Russia in times of the pandemic: Shifting responsibility and blame as a technology of governance
May 28, 2020 | Special report: Coronavirus outbreak, presidents’ responses, and institutional consequences
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...
Hungary and COVID-19: The pandemic as a political economy tool for political survival
May 21, 2020 | Special report: Coronavirus outbreak, presidents’ responses, and institutional consequences
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,...
Coronavirus in Turkey. Emergency Under A Permanent State of Emergency
May 14, 2020 | Special report: Coronavirus outbreak, presidents’ responses, and institutional consequences
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...
The French response to the Corona Crisis: Semi-presidentialism par excellence
May 7, 2020 | Special report: Coronavirus outbreak, presidents’ responses, and institutional consequences
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...