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When COVID-19 meets centralized, personalized power

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  • Yuen Yuen Ang

    (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

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The debate over whether autocracies or democracies are better at fighting epidemics is misguided. Under President Xi Jinping’s centralized command, his administration has both succeeded and failed at handling the COVID-19 crisis. While it effectively curbed infections within China after the virus had spread, it failed to stem the outbreak before it went global.

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  • Yuen Yuen Ang, 2020. "When COVID-19 meets centralized, personalized power," Nature Human Behaviour, Nature, vol. 4(5), pages 445-447, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nathum:v:4:y:2020:i:5:d:10.1038_s41562-020-0872-3
    DOI: 10.1038/s41562-020-0872-3
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