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What Political Science Can Teach Us About How Different Countries Are Handling COVID-19

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Mark Leon Goldberg
Apr 02, 2020
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What explains why some countries are responding to the coronavirus more effectively than others? One branch of political science, called comparative politics, offers a useful lens to understand how differences between countries are affecting governments' response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Sofia Fenner is an assistant professor of political science at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania who explains what comparative politics and political science can teach us about how governments are responding to this crisis.

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