Crisis management in authoritarian regimes: A comparative study of COVID-19 responses in Turkey and Iran
| Autor: | Serdar San, Mehmet F. Bastug, Harun Basli |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Turkey Comparative case media_common.quotation_subject Pneumonia Viral Crisis management Iran Authoritarianism 03 medical and health sciences Politics 0302 clinical medicine Political science Development economics Pandemic Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Pandemics media_common 030505 public health SARS-CoV-2 Health Policy Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Outbreak COVID-19 Communicable Disease Control Ideology Public Health 0305 other medical science |
| Zdroj: | Global Public Health |
| ISSN: | 1744-1706 |
| Popis: | The new coronavirus disease, or COVID-19, was first identified in late 2019 and declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2020. Turkey and Iran have been heavily affected by the outbreak, with over 460,000 and 890,000 cases reported respectively, so far. Even though these two countries have similar political and ideological approaches and are roughly the same size in terms of population density, as well as despite a high number of reported COVID-19 cases, a fast infection spread rate, and mismanagement of the crisis in both countries, Turkey's death toll remained lower when compared to the death toll in Iran. Deploying a comparative case study methodology drawing on an analysis of secondary sources, this study investigates Turkey and Iran's official responses to COVID-19 to further understand authoritarian reactions to large-scale crises and how distinctions between the actions taken by authoritarian regimes might impact crisis management in such contexts. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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