This book examines how governments around the world responded to the health emergency created by the COVID-19 pandemic. Before vaccines became available, non-me

This book examines similarities and differences in 31 European governments’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic hit Europe in early 2020

COVID-19 is the most significant global crisis of any of our lifetimes. The numbers have been stupefying, whether of infection and mortality, the scale of publi

The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic is the greatest science policy failure in a generation. We knew this was coming. Warnings about the threat of a new

The book provides a global perspective of local government response towards the COVID-19 pandemic through the analysis of a sample of countries in all continent