Czech Republic : Best or Worst in Covid Country?
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F23%3A00130093" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/23:00130093 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-14145-4_12" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-14145-4_12</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14145-4_12" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-031-14145-4_12</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Czech Republic : Best or Worst in Covid Country?
Original language description
Despite being unprepared for the COVID-19 outburst in spring 2020, Czechia did particularly well in handling the first weeks of the pandemic. However, the government which was the key actor in the whole process did not use the following summer months to prepare the country for autumn and winter, and the Czech success turned into a catastrophe that continued until Spring 2021. This chapter argues that this undesired development was caused particularly by a combination of cabinet being cradled by success in spring 2020 and its general populist tendencies. This mixture led to the underestimation of the risks associated with the autumn months by the government causing its unwillingness to adopt suitable but unpopular decisions in later stages of the pandemic. As a consequence, the government quickly lost the credibility among the general public whose compliance with the often confusing and problematic rules was constantly decreasing especially if compared to the spring 2020 months.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Governments' Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic in Europe : Navigating the Perfect Storm
ISBN
9783031141447
Number of pages of the result
11
Pages from-to
135-145
Number of pages of the book
475
Publisher name
Palgrave Macmillan
Place of publication
Cham
UT code for WoS chapter
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