Karabulut Gokhan, Zimmermann Klaus F, Bilgin Mehmet Huseyin, Doker Asli Cansin
Istanbul University, Turkey.
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Germany.
Econ Lett. 2021 Jun;203:109840. doi: 10.1016/j.econlet.2021.109840. Epub 2021 Mar 27.
More democratic countries are often expected to fail at providing a fast, strong, and effective response when facing a crisis such as COVID-19. This could result in higher infections and more negative health effects, but hard evidence to prove this claim is missing for the new disease. Studying the association with five different democracy measures, this study shows that while the infection rates of the disease do indeed appear to be higher for more democratic countries so far, their observed case fatality rates are lower. There is also a negative association between case fatality rates and government attempts to censor media. However, such censorship relates positively to the infection rate.
人们通常认为，在面对像新冠疫情这样的危机时，民主程度更高的国家往往难以做出迅速、有力且有效的应对。这可能会导致更高的感染率以及更严重的负面健康影响，但对于这种新疾病，却缺乏确凿证据来证实这一说法。通过研究与五种不同民主衡量标准之间的关联，本研究表明，虽然到目前为止，民主程度更高的国家该疾病的感染率确实似乎更高，但其观察到的病死率却更低。病死率与政府审查媒体的企图之间也存在负相关。然而，这种审查与感染率呈正相关。
