ABSTRACT

This research examines the impact of government ideology on fighting the COVID-19 pandemic based on the daily data of 143 countries from January 1, 2020 to January 31, 2021. By using the panel corrected standard errors model, the results show that a right-wing ruling party is linked with a greater number of new daily confirmed cases and deaths of COVID-19. This impact also appears in the samples of non-OECD countries and Asian countries, and the impact of government ideology on the COVID-19 epidemic is more pronounced in Asian countries. Moreover, we find that government ideology had no effect on COVID-19 before March 11, 2020, while after that time it played a significant role in controlling the epidemic, because of the announcement of a “global pandemic” from the World Health Organization on March 11. In sum, our findings deepen the understanding of the relationship between government ideology and COVID-19 epidemic.

摘要

本研究基于 2020 年 1 月 1 日至 2021 年 1 月 31 日 143 个国家/地区的每日数据，检验了政府意识形态对抗击 COVID-19 大流行的影响。通过使用面板校正标准误差模型，结果表明：执政党与更多新的每日确诊病例和 COVID-19 死亡病例有关。这种影响也出现在非经合组织国家和亚洲国家的样本中，而政府意识形态对 COVID-19 疫情的影响在亚洲国家更为明显。此外，我们发现政府意识形态在 2020 年 3 月 11 日之前对 COVID-19 没有影响，而在那之后它在控制流行病方面发挥了重要作用，因为世界卫生组织宣布了“全球大流行” 3 月 11 日。总而言之，