
As the UK enters a new phase of government-imposed measures designed to combat COVID-19, a team of experts from Kingston University has released a report examining the initial response of eight democratic countries to the pandemic, and how local, national and international politics played a pivotal role in the outcomes.
The report, “COVID-19 and Democracy, First Cut Policy Analyses: Country Case Studies,” looks at how the eight countries responded from April to June 30, during the early stages of the pandemic. The UK, Germany, Bulgaria, Israel, Japan, Taiwan and the U.S. were all included in the study.
Project lead Dr. Peter Finn, from the University’s School of Law, Social and Behavioral Sciences, said one of the main aims was to look at the way policies had, or hadn’t,…