TY - JOUR
T1 - The COVID-19 Pandemic and State Healthcare Capacity
T2 - Government Responses and Citizen Assessments in Estonia, Georgia, and Ukraine
AU - Buckley, Cynthia J.
AU - Clem, Ralph S.
AU - Herron, Erik S.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank the Minerva Research Initiative, the Office of Naval Research, the Woolwine Family Faculty Travel Fund, and West Virginia University for research support. We also thank Marlene Laruelle and her colleagues for facilitating the PONARS Eurasia Pandemic Workshop and Mikhail Alexseev for his advice. Timely research assistance from Theodore Fehr, Nick Larson and Elizabeta Shifrin at UIUC, and Ani Tepnadze and Paige Wantlin at WVU, is much appreciated. The opinions expressed here are solely those of the authors.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic raises concerns about the capability of governments to develop policies addressing its effects. This article evaluates citizens’ attitudes about their governments’ early responses to the crisis in three post-Soviet countries (Estonia, Georgia, and Ukraine). We explore how the pandemic emerged, focusing on connections among state capacity, government policy interventions, and crisis mitigation. We also use data from the Perceptions and Attitudes on COVID-19 in Eurasia (PACE) survey to evaluate how individual-level attitudes and characteristics are associated with evaluations of government responsiveness. We find that trust in state institutions affects reported satisfaction with crisis responses.
AB - The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic raises concerns about the capability of governments to develop policies addressing its effects. This article evaluates citizens’ attitudes about their governments’ early responses to the crisis in three post-Soviet countries (Estonia, Georgia, and Ukraine). We explore how the pandemic emerged, focusing on connections among state capacity, government policy interventions, and crisis mitigation. We also use data from the Perceptions and Attitudes on COVID-19 in Eurasia (PACE) survey to evaluate how individual-level attitudes and characteristics are associated with evaluations of government responsiveness. We find that trust in state institutions affects reported satisfaction with crisis responses.
KW - COVID-19
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U2 - 10.1080/10758216.2021.1908147
DO - 10.1080/10758216.2021.1908147
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85104696160
SN - 1075-8216
VL - 69
SP - 14
EP - 25
JO - Problems of Post-Communism
JF - Problems of Post-Communism
IS - 1
ER -