Policymaking in a low-trust state: legitimacy, state capacity, and responses to COVID-19 in Hong Kong

With indiscriminate geographic and socio-economic reach, COVID-19 has visited destruction of life and livelihoods on a largely unprepared world and can arguably be declared the new millennium’s most trying test of state capacity. Governments are facing an urgent mandate to mobilize quickly and compr...

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Main Authors: Kris Hartley, Darryl S. L. Jarvis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2020-07-01
Series:Policy & Society
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14494035.2020.1783791