Overview
- Analyzes the political impact and the governmental responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in eight Latin American countries
- Discusses how denialism and populism affected the responses to the new coronavirus pandemic
- Evaluates the effectiveness of the strategies adopted by different governments to fight the new coronavirus
Part of the book series: Latin American Societies (LAS)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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State Action During COVID-19 Pandemic
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Public Opinion and Pandemic
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About this book
This book analyzes how COVID-19 impacted politics and how politics shaped the response to the pandemic in Latin America, the region which has become the epicenter of the global health crisis started in China. The volume brings together studies carried out in eight countries of the region – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua and Uruguay – and show how the impacts and outcomes varied a lot across the region depending on the political processes under way in each country in the years preceding the pandemic and on the political responses adopted by each government to deal with the health crisis.
The volume is divided into four parts, each one dedicated to a specific dimension of the relation between politics and COVID-19 in Latin America. The first part is dedicated to denialism, and presents three case studies of governments that denied the importance of the health crisis: Brazil, Mexico and Nicaragua. The second part takes Uruguay and Colombia as two opposite examples of successful and failed state action against COVID-19. The third part analyzes how social movements faced the pandemic in Brazil and Chile. Finally, the fourth part analyzes how public opinion reacted to political responses to COVID-19 in four countries: Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador and Mexico.
COVID-19's Political Challenges in Latin America will be a valuable resource for political scientists, sociologists and other social scientists interested in understanding how the pandemic affected politics and how politics affected the fight against the biggest health crisis faced by humanity in the last hundred years.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Michelle Fernandez is a Brazilian researcher and professor of Political Science at the Institute of Political Science at Universidade de Brasília (Ipol-UnB), Brazil, and a collaborate researcher at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz/Ministry of Health), Brazil. She develops research in the areas of political institutions, health policy and bureaucracy.
Carlos Machado is a Brazilian associate professor of Political Science at the Institute of Political Science at Universidade de Brasília (Ipol-UnB), Brazil. He is the coordinator of the Flora Tristán Research Center and of the extension project “Ubuntu: Frente Negra de Ciência Política”. He develops research in the areas of political parties, electoral studies, race and politics and anti-racism.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: COVID-19's political challenges in Latin America
Editors: Michelle Fernandez, Carlos Machado
Series Title: Latin American Societies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77602-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-77601-5Published: 19 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-77604-6Published: 20 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-77602-2Published: 18 October 2021
Series ISSN: 2730-5538
Series E-ISSN: 2730-5546
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 198
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Sociology, Health Policy, Comparative Politics