Did countries with populist leaders suffer more from COVID?
Meyer, B.
(23 August 2021)
Did countries with populist leaders suffer more from COVID?
LSE COVID-19 Blog.
Some thought the pandemic would expose the weaknesses of populist leaders. But they took very different approaches to managing COVID, and the evidence about the results is mixed. Brett Meyer (Tony Blair Institute for Global Change) finds that populist leaders who downplayed the pandemic in the early months had more cases and deaths, but so did those who adopted a serious but illiberal response.
| Item Type | Blog post |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2021 The Author |
| Departments | LSE |
| Date Deposited | 24 Sep 2021 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/112010 |