State capacity during crisis: exploring varieties of state capacity in the COVID-19 pandemic
Ganga P.D. Schenk C.
2026Routledge
Territory, Politics, Governance
2026#14Issue 192 - 113 pp.
This article examines coercive state responses during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic as one option among several types of state capacity that may be mobilised in times of crisis. While states respond to crises with their available capacity, strategies change over time, especially as deploying coercive capacities can be costly. We use variables from the CoronaNet Research Project, an original dataset of over 170,000 policy entries from 195 countries, including nearly 26,000 policies on Russia, to show timing and substitution effects where different types of state capacity were leveraged in different policy arenas and at different times in the pandemic.
coercion , COVID-19 pandemic , governance , policymaking , Russian federation , State capacity , territory
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Social Sciences Division, Duke Kunshan University, Kunshan, China
School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
Social Sciences Division
School of Social Sciences and Humanities
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