Institutional and cultural determinants of speed of government responses during COVID-19 pandemic
- This article examines institutional and cultural determinants of the speed of government responses during the COVID-19 pandemic. We define the speed as the marginal rate of stringency index change. Based on cross-country data, we find that collectivism is associated with higher speed of government response. We also find a moderating role of trust in government, i.e., the association of individualism-collectivism on speed is stronger in countries with higher levels of trust in government. We do not find significant predictive power of democracy, media freedom and power distance on the speed of government responses.
| Author: | Diqiang ChenORCiD, Diefeng Peng, Marc Oliver Rieger, Mei Wang |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:385-1-18259 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00844-4 |
| Parent Title (English): | Humanities and Social Sciences Communications |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Place of publication: | Basingstoke |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of completion: | 2021/07/14 |
| Date of publication: | 2021/07/14 |
| Publishing institution: | Universität Trier |
| Contributing corporation: | The publication was funded by the Open Access Fund of Universität Trier and the German Research Foundation (DFG) |
| Release Date: | 2022/03/15 |
| GND Keyword: | COVID-19; Politisches Handeln; Politisches System; Regierung |
| Volume (for the year ...): | 2021 |
| Issue / no.: | Band 8 |
| Number of pages: | 9 |
| Institutes: | Fachbereich 4 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
| Licence (German): |  CC BY: Creative-Commons-Lizenz 4.0 International |
