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This paper provides a quantitative examination of the link between political institutions and deaths during the first 100 days of the COVID-19 pandemic. We demonstrate that countries with more democratic political institutions experienced deaths on a larger per capita scale and sooner than less democratic countries. The result is robust to the inclusion of many relevant controls, a battery of estimation techniques, and to estimation with instruments for the institutional measures that we consider. Additionally, we examine the extent to which COVID

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Comparative Politics

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Democracy, State Capacity, and COVID-19 Related School Closures

Axel Cronert

This study investigates the institutional determinants of the timing of COVID

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Public Law and Courts

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Public Support for the Judicial Branches under the COVID-19 Pandemic

Sohei Shigemura, Tatsuya Iseki, Shun Ikeda, Hideo Ishima

While facing the COVID-19 pandemic, governments may overly restrict their citizens' rights. This study examined whether voters would support a court's ruling if the court decided that the government's restriction of their rights was illegal. Supposing that voters faced with the risk of a pandemic will support a government with the resources to prevent a pandemic, we set up the following hypotheses: If the courts nullify the measures against COVID

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American Government and Politics

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Pandemic Politics: Timing State-Level Social Distancing Responses to COVID-19

Christopher Adolph, Kenya Amano, Bree Bang-Jensen, Nancy Fullman, John Wilkerson

As the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 spread throughout the United States in early 2020, the federal government issued social distancing recommendations but left to the states the most difficult and consequential decisions restricting behavior, such as canceling events, closing schools and businesses, and issuing stay-at-home orders. We present an original dataset of state-level social distancing policy responses to the epidemic and explore how political partisanship, COVID

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Public Policy

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Mask Mandates, Misinformation, and Data Voids in Local News Coverage of COVID-19

Garrett Morrow, Gabriela Compagni

Crisis events like the COVID

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