The Phenomenology of Institutional (Re)Design in the Pandemic

• In Event: Population Aging and COVID-19

Abstract

This paper provides an early account of the transformation undergone by the political institutions in countries worldwide in the course of their dealing with an exogenous shock of the COVID-19 pandemic. I provide the typology of the methods/strategies of institutional change and present evidence of each type of change as based on the original dataset of Pandemic Response Policies as developed by Binghamton University COVID-19 policy response lab. Evidence suggests that the period of the pandemic presented a global episode of political institutional fragility.

Author

• Olga V. Shvetsova, SUNY, Binghamton University