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[new thread] *Democracy, Capacity & Coercion in Pandemic Response—COVID 19 in Comparative Political Perspective* out today in @JHPPL where @Renu_Singh_ & I look at three big questions that #COVID19 is raising for comparative health politics and policy...
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1. What does "capacity" to respond to pandemics mean? The highest scoring 30 countries on the #GlobalHealthSecurity Index have performed very differently--they turn out to have very *different* actual capacity to respond to COVID... This figure shows huge variation👇
Why??
Why??
1a.The #GHSInex and broader measures of "state capacity" align closely--so what are they actually measuring? A similar group of wealthy states in the global North are often judged to have similar capacity...
