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 …

Abstract This article analyses the role of the state in shaping working and employment conditions with a focus on the … protective labour standards in that regard. State action and strategic decisions of major actors are strongly influenced by …

time regime? This article looks at the Covid-19 pandemic and respective state interventions from a perspective inspired by … can be understood as the result of a collision of opposing temporal logics. In order to contain the pandemic, the state … - commodification and rational use of time, acceleration, and appropriation of the future. This 'return of the state' as a power …

differently than in the US and the EU. The party-state is the (partial) owner of important companies and openly intervenes in the … authority. At the same time, the party-state organizes its rule through output legitimacy and functions in many respects as an … indicator-driven, meritocratic system. The expansion of hybrid Chinese party-state capitalism is therefore leading to a new …

Germany and France offer two different models of political and administrative organisation: a federal state on one side … of the Rhine and a unitary state on the other, albeit one that has become more decentralised over the last 40 years. Thus …