Panel
State Responses to COVID in Comparative Perspective
Tue
Apr
13
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The COVID-19 pandemic represents an unprecedented common threat to global public health and economic and political stability. But across democratic states, public policy responses to COVID-19 have varied dramatically. This panel will consider the great divergence of government responses and outcomes, examining case studies from the United States, Latin America, Asia, and Europe.
Please join us for a panel discussion with:
- Marianne Kneuer, professor of political science; director of the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Hildesheim, Germany; and president of the International Political Science Association
- Kristen Monroe, Chancellor's Distinguished Professor of Political Science; director of the UCI Interdisciplinary Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality, University of California at Irvine
- Samuel Valenzuela, professor of sociology and Kellogg Institute faculty fellow
- Sharon Yoon, assistant professor of Korean studies and Liu Institute faculty fellow
Moderated by: Andrea Peña-Vasquez, Kellogg Institute doctoral affiliate, political science
Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute and our Research Cluster on Democratization Theory with cosponsorship by the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies.
Speakers / Related People
Marianne Kneuer
Marianne Kneuer is president of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) and is a professor of comparative politics and international relations at Germany’s University of Hildesheim, where she is head of the Institute of the Social Sciences and a member of the Department of Political Science...
Kristen Renwick Monroe
Kristen Renwick Monroe is a scholar whose work has changed the field of political psychology, political economy, and normative political theory. Monroe’s award-winning work on altruism and moral choice deals with a central problem in politics and ethics: our treatment of others...
J. Samuel Valenzuela
J. Samuel Valenzuela is Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame. Valenzuela's publications have focused on the origins and development of electoral processes, on labor movements and politics, on oppositions under authoritarian regimes, on democratic transitions and consolidation, on political parties, on problems and theories of development, and on comparative methodology...
Sharon Yoon
Sharon J. Yoon is assistant professor of Korean studies in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. She is affiliated with the Keough School’s Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies. She earned her PhD in sociology from Princeton University and graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College...