Managing the Pandemic: Authoritarian Responses to COVID-19

• In Event: The Politics of COVID-19 Response

Brief Overview

Why do some authoritarian regimes obscure their number of COVID-19 cases? Authoritarian responses to the pandemic have not been uniform. Some regimes have allowed in WHO observers and reported numbers, while others have not.

Authors

• Farah Abou Harb, George Mason University

• Courtney Kayser, George Mason University