Varieties of Resilience and Side Effects of Disobedience: Cross-National Patterns of Survival during the Coronavirus Pandemic. Issue 1 (2nd January 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Aktürk, Şener; Lika, Idlir
• Is Part Of: Problems of post-communism. Volume 69:Issue 1(2022)
• Page Start: 1
• Page End: 13
• Publication Date: 2022-01-02
• Subjects: Post-communism -- Periodicals; Post-communism; Periodicals; 330.91717
• DOI: 10.1080/10758216.2021.1894405
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1075-8216

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The coronavirus pandemic allows us to test several hypotheses regarding state capacity and power by using a group of thirty-one Eurasian countries. These countries vary on a number of potentially relevant causal variables such as population density; proximity to the earliest epicenters of the pandemic; health spending; ethnoreligious diversity; dominant religious tradition; level of democracy; and the prevalence of smoking. We compare fatality rates five months after the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak to be a pandemic, and focus on governmental policies and outcomes in four paired comparisons: Albania and Kosovo; Belarus and Lithuania; Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan; and Greece and Turkey.