Varieties of Crisis Response: Fiscal Spending on COVID-19 in the Three Worlds of Welfare

• In Event: Political Economy of the Pandemic

Brief Overview

Describes variation in fiscal response to COVID-19 across the OECD, in which the volume and design of stimulus packages empirically cluster by welfare regime. Theorizes institutional path dependencies linking welfare state design to crisis response.

Author

• Heeyoung Angie Jo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology