We expect effective state institutions to matter in a country's ability to respond to crises. Yet notably in the first … relationships in the cross-country data, drawing on measures of the state, COVID's health impact, and pandemic policy response. In … between state effectiveness and pandemic health outcomes does in fact pertain. Our findings also offer insight into how …

hierarchical contests and comparing the implications of centralized with decentralized governance. Increasing information available …

confidence of international institutions and development partners in the state's economy and institutions. …

pandemic response serves to highlight his mastery of political deployment within a weak state. Two significant inputs are … required to deploy state capacity into a range of outcomes: political coalitions (including leadership, classes, and parties …) and a balance of social forces. The 'politics of deployment' depends on the quality of decision-making of state leadership …

confirmed cases and death levels in Viet Nam. We use the Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index in …

COVID-19 has brought to the fore the issue of state preparedness in mitigating health emergencies. This paper … problematizes the received wisdom of greater state capacity in mitigating the severity of the pandemic. Based on a case study of … West Bengal, a subnational state of India, it shows that measures of state capacity do not map onto the pandemic response …