Filling in the Gaps: The Transnational Administration of the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Peru. (27th December 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Alarcón, Manuel Augusto Diez; Legler, Thomas; Rodríguez, Flor De María; Ruiz, Mariana
• Is Part Of: Bulletin of Latin American research. Volume 39(2020)Supplement 1
• Page Start: 121
• Page End: 125
• Publication Date: 2020-12-27
• Subjects: COVID‐19 -- global governance -- Latin America -- Peru -- regional governance -- transnational administration; Latin America -- Periodicals; 980.03805; 980
• DOI: 10.1111/blar.13184
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0261-3050

Abstract

Abstract : Diverse sources have constructed a common narrative of individual and isolated responses by countries and their leaders to the global coronavirus pandemic, akin to sálvese quien pueda (every man for himself). This article suggests that this is a simplification of the governance of the COVID‐19 pandemic in Peru. Peru's governance story is one of domestic public and private action closely interwoven with crucial elements of transnational administration out of sheer necessity. The struggle against the pandemic has generated a domestic and transnational administrative symbiosis, involving authorities at multiple levels in efforts to fill a series of interconnected domestic, regional, and global governance gaps.