Overview
Discusses the policy capacities that have driven Singapore's policy response to the Covid-19 pandemic
Addresses the systemic blind spots and policy shortcomings that have also emerged in the process
Provides policy recommendations on policy capacity-building for future pandemics and crises
Is of strong interest to scholars and students of public policy and crisis management
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Policy responses to Covid-19
- Policy learning after SARS
- Pandemic response in Singapore
- Healthcare systems and Covid-19
- Resilience and Pandemics
- Policy capacity
- Institutional analyses and Pandemics
- Policy Lessons from healthcare crises
- Crisis management and Pandemics
- Migrant Labour in Singapore
- Civil Society in Singapore
- Civil Service in Singapore
- Singapore's Developmental Model
- Covid-19 and Hong Kong
- Covid-19 and Taiwan
About this book
This book focuses on the policy capacities, built up since the 2003 SARS crisis, that have contributed to Singapore’s Covid-19 response efforts. In doing so, the book discusses the fiscal, operational, analytical and political capacities that have driven Singapore's policy response to the pandemic, and proposes a broad policy capacity framework that will be applicable to the analysis of other contexts as well.
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought about massive disruptions in societies and economies across the world. Singapore’s early success in managing the Covid-19 pandemic has received much attention from researchers and observers from across the world. A study by the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University had described Singapore’s early efforts to detect and contain Covid-19 as the “gold standard of near-perfect detection”.
Despite its success in containing Covid-19 infections, Singapore has also faced challenges arising from systemic policy blind spots, resulting in high levels of infection in its migrant worker dormitories. With that, the book also discusses the systemic blind spots and policy shortcomings that have emerged in Singapore’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and provides policy recommendations on policy capacity-building for future pandemics and crises.
The book will be of strong interest to scholars and students of public policy and crisis management, especially those who specialise in healthcare policy and pandemic response. Given the ongoing challenges posed by Covid-19 as well as the continued risks of other future infectious disease outbreaks, the book will also be useful for policymakers and practitioners seeking to draw policy lessons from Singapore’s experience with the SARS and Covid-19 outbreaks.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Capacity-building and Pandemics
Book Subtitle: Singapore’s Response to Covid-19
Authors: Jun Jie Woo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9453-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-9452-6Published: 14 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-9453-3Published: 13 November 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 112
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Policy, Asian Politics