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Successful Government Responses to the Pandemic: Contextualizing National and Urban Responses to the COVID-19 Outbreak in East and West

Successful Government Responses to the Pandemic: Contextualizing National and Urban Responses to the COVID-19 Outbreak in East and West

Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko
Copyright: © 2021 |Volume: 10 |Issue: 2 |Pages: 17
ISSN: 2160-9918|EISSN: 2160-9926|EISBN13: 9781799862536|DOI: 10.4018/IJEPR.20210401.oa1
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Anttiroiko, Ari-Veikko. "Successful Government Responses to the Pandemic: Contextualizing National and Urban Responses to the COVID-19 Outbreak in East and West." IJEPR vol.10, no.2 2021: pp.1-17. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJEPR.20210401.oa1

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Anttiroiko, A. (2021). Successful Government Responses to the Pandemic: Contextualizing National and Urban Responses to the COVID-19 Outbreak in East and West. International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR), 10(2), 1-17. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJEPR.20210401.oa1

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Anttiroiko, Ari-Veikko. "Successful Government Responses to the Pandemic: Contextualizing National and Urban Responses to the COVID-19 Outbreak in East and West," International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR) 10, no.2: 1-17. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJEPR.20210401.oa1

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Abstract

This article discusses national and local strategies for confronting COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis sheds light on how societal context, institutional arrangements, knowledge culture, and technology deployment manifest in national responses to the pandemic. Discussion describes country cases from East and South East Asia, on the one hand, and from Europe and Asia-Pacific, on the other. The overall impression is that Asian cases reflect proactivity and diligence, while Western responses are reactive and more often than not slightly delayed. Both country groups include successes, while the overwhelming majority of global benchmarks are Asian. As the management of COVID-19 crisis is essentially a multi-level governance issue, discussion about national strategies is supplemented with a glance at the role of cities. The COVID-19-related urban challenges revolve around increased interest in urban safety, creative approaches to and the uses of urban space, the rise of digital urban platforms, and deeper insights on citizen engagement.