A Statistical Comparison of Democratic Liberties, Socioeconomic Development, and Effectiveness of COVID-19 Pandemic Response in Countries Around the World
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown in full display that state capacity to respond to crises is variable among countries. In this study, the relative performance of 165 countries in containing the pandemic within their borders is assessed and compared with their individual scores on the Freedom Index (FI) and the Human Development Index (HDI) to understand whether the indicators that these indices represent (political freedoms and socioeconomic development) explain the effectiveness of each country’s response to the pandemic. A pandemic performance coefficient (PPPC) was created to quantify their individual performance and treated as the independent variable. Bivariate correlation analyses and summary statistics that quantify the significance of the variance of the values of both dependent variables – in relation to PPC values- show otherwise, suggesting that there is not a statistically significant relationship between political rights, socioeconomic development, and the effectiveness of pandemic containment efforts. These results vindicate certain crisis management scholars who argue that there are no organizational patterns required for successful crisis management.
Faculty Sponsors
Dr. Ransford F. Edwards
Project Type
Event
Location
Alvin Sherman Library
Start Date
4-6-2021 12:00 PM
End Date
4-9-2021 12:00 PM
A Statistical Comparison of Democratic Liberties, Socioeconomic Development, and Effectiveness of COVID-19 Pandemic Response in Countries Around the World
Alvin Sherman Library
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown in full display that state capacity to respond to crises is variable among countries. In this study, the relative performance of 165 countries in containing the pandemic within their borders is assessed and compared with their individual scores on the Freedom Index (FI) and the Human Development Index (HDI) to understand whether the indicators that these indices represent (political freedoms and socioeconomic development) explain the effectiveness of each country’s response to the pandemic. A pandemic performance coefficient (PPPC) was created to quantify their individual performance and treated as the independent variable. Bivariate correlation analyses and summary statistics that quantify the significance of the variance of the values of both dependent variables – in relation to PPC values- show otherwise, suggesting that there is not a statistically significant relationship between political rights, socioeconomic development, and the effectiveness of pandemic containment efforts. These results vindicate certain crisis management scholars who argue that there are no organizational patterns required for successful crisis management.
