01859nam a22001697a 4500999001900000008004100019100004800060245010800108260004600216300003200262520112300294650008901417773004601506906002301552942000701575952010701582  c519228d519228220215b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aLaishram, Chinglen and  Kumar, Pawan932273  aDemocracies or authoritarians? Regime differences in the efficacy of handling Covid-19 in 158 countries  aIndian Journal of Public Administration    a67(3), Sep, 2021: p.470-483  aA new genre of contestation is seen in the discourse of democracy and governance worldwide concerning efficacy in combating the Covid-19 pandemic, that is, which regime is handling the pandemic better—authoritarian or democratic? As a response to this debate, premised on the practicality that differences in total confirmed cases and deaths reflect the raw quantity of government’s ability to control and handle an infectious disease, we examined differences in the reported number of total confirmed cases and deaths across the categories of political regimes. We used regime classification from the Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) Democratic Index—full democracy, flawed democracy, hybrid and authoritarian regime. The country-wise reported number of Covid-19 confirmed cases and deaths were extracted from World Health Organization’s 6th Weekly Epidemiological Report. The results spotlight that if the democratic countries are inevitably more susceptible to pandemics, then we need to cautiously reassess the notion of public health and pandemics in the context of political regimes. – Reproduced   aCovid-19, Pandemic, Public health, Political regime, Democracy, Authoritarian929912  aIndian Journal of Public Administration    aCOVID-19 (DISEASE)  cAR  00102ddc40709393279aIIPAbIIPAd2022-02-15h67(3), Sep, 2021: p.470-483pAR126260r2022-02-15yAR