COVID-19 and public-sector capacity
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The paper argues that to govern a pandemic, governments require dynamic capabilities and capacity—too often missing. These include capacity to adapt and learn; capacity to align public services and citizen needs; capacity to govern resilient production systems; and capacity to govern data and digital platforms.
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Various studies have attributed differences in countries' management of pandemic risks to factors such as social trust, leadership, social cohesion, and public sector capacity.
“Various studies have attributed these differences to factors such as social trust, leadership, social cohesion, and public sector capacity (Lofredo 2020; Mazzucato and Kattel 2020; Tourish 2020; Fukuyama and Lopez-Calva, 2021).”
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“Various studies have attributed these differences to factors such as social trust, leadership, social cohesion, and public sector capacity (Lofredo 2020; Mazzucato and Kattel 2020; Tourish 2020; Fukuyama and Lopez-Calva, 2021).”
- Authors
- Mazzucato, M., & Kattel, R.
- Affiliations
- University College London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Mazzucato, Mariana
- Venue
- Oxford Review of Economic Policy
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2020
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- Supplement_1
- Pages
- S256-S269
- ISSN
- 0266-903X (ISSN-L)
- 1460-2121
- PMC
- PMC7499771
- OpenAlex
- W3082894066
- Cited by
- 238
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
- 2026: 27 · 2025: 37 · 2024: 40 · 2023: 50 · 2022: 49 · 2021: 33 · 2020: 2
- FWCI
- 115.69
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model (vor)
- Locations
- Oxford Review of Economic Policy (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- European Commission (HORIZON2020, 822781)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Public Administration and Political Analysis
- Social Sciences › Public Administration › Public Policy and Administration Research
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Public Policy and Governance
- Keywords
- COVID-19 pandemic, public sector capacity, dynamic capabilities, pandemic governance, adaptive capacity, learning ability, resilience, data governance, digital platforms, state capacity
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