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Policy capacity and Singapore’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Despite its excellent public healthcare system and efficient public administration, Singapore has been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. While fatalities in the city-state remain low and contact tracing efforts have been largely successful, it has nonetheless experienced high rates of infe...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8754693/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35039725 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14494035.2020.1783789 |
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description | Despite its excellent public healthcare system and efficient public administration, Singapore has been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. While fatalities in the city-state remain low and contact tracing efforts have been largely successful, it has nonetheless experienced high rates of infection and the emergence of large infection clusters in its foreign worker dormitories. This paper analyses this dual-track policy outcome – low fatalities but high infection rates – from a policy capacity perspective. Specifically, the policy capacities that had contributed to Singapore’s low fatality rates and effective contact tracing are identified while the capacity deficiencies that may have caused its high rates of infection are discussed. In doing so, I argue that the presence of fiscal, operational and political capacities that were built up after the SARS crisis had contributed to Singapore’s low fatality rate and contact tracing capabilities while deficiencies in analytical capacities may explain its high infection rate. |
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spelling | pubmed-87546932022-01-13 Policy capacity and Singapore’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic Woo, J J Policy Soc Article Despite its excellent public healthcare system and efficient public administration, Singapore has been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. While fatalities in the city-state remain low and contact tracing efforts have been largely successful, it has nonetheless experienced high rates of infection and the emergence of large infection clusters in its foreign worker dormitories. This paper analyses this dual-track policy outcome – low fatalities but high infection rates – from a policy capacity perspective. Specifically, the policy capacities that had contributed to Singapore’s low fatality rates and effective contact tracing are identified while the capacity deficiencies that may have caused its high rates of infection are discussed. In doing so, I argue that the presence of fiscal, operational and political capacities that were built up after the SARS crisis had contributed to Singapore’s low fatality rate and contact tracing capabilities while deficiencies in analytical capacities may explain its high infection rate. Oxford University Press 2020-06-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8754693/ /pubmed/35039725 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14494035.2020.1783789 Text en © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Article Woo, J J Policy capacity and Singapore’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic |
title | Policy capacity and Singapore’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full | Policy capacity and Singapore’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_fullStr | Policy capacity and Singapore’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Policy capacity and Singapore’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_short | Policy capacity and Singapore’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_sort | policy capacity and singapore’s response to the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8754693/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35039725 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14494035.2020.1783789 |
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