The COVID-19 pandemic has substantially altered economic, social, and political relationships. The relational consequences of the pandemic will be interrogated using the lens of “entangled political economy” (EPE). The EPE approach explicitly recognises human interactions generating complex...

We extend the Institutional Possibility Frontier (IPF) — a theoretical framework depicting the institutional trade-offs between the dual costs of dictatorship and disorder (Djankov et al. 2003) — by incorporating the notion of subjective costs. The costs of institutional choice are not...