Policy Styles and Trust in the Age of Pandemics

Name: Policy Styles and Trust in the Age of Pandemics
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Policy Styles and Trust in the Age of PandemicsGlobal Threat, National Responses\nAuthor(s): Nikolaos Zahariadis, Evangelia Petridou, Theofanis Exadaktylos, Jrgen Sparf\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367683924, 978-0367683924\nSynopsis\nThis book explores the reasons behind the variation in national responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. In doing so, it furthers the policy studies scholarship through an examination of the effects of policy styles on national responses to the pandemic. \n\nDespite governments being faced with the same threat, significant variation in national responses, frequently of contradictory nature, has been observed. Implications about responses inform a broader class of crises beyond this specific context. The authors argue that trust in government interacts with policy styles resulting in different responses and that the acute turbulence, uncertainty, and urgency of crises complicate the .