Democracy and COVID-19 Outcomes

Arbeitspapier

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 censormedia. However, such censorship relates positively to the infection rate.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: GLO Discussion Paper ; No. 770

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior ; Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables: General ; Capitalist Systems: Political Economy ; Health: Other
• Subject: Democracy ; COVID-19 ; Coronavirus ; Pandemic ; Lockdown ; Media Censoring

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Karabulut, Gokhan ; Zimmermann, Klaus F. ; Bilgin, Mehmet Huseyin ; Doker, Asli Cansin
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Global Labor Organization (GLO)
• (where): Essen
• (when): 2021

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/228831
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET