COVID-19 has revealed the policy capacity of some governance institutions, both resilience and vulnerability. Hence, this circumstance has demanded public administration scholars and practitioners to rethink the existing governance practices, particularly in making effective crisis-related policies. This paper reviewed primary and secondary studies exploring the application of policy capacity competencies in facilitating COVID-19 handling in Asia. In achieving so, we did a systematic literature review of relevant studies published between January and October 2020. Applying the agreed search term to several databases, we found 2541 studies, while merely 30 were included for review. Findings from the studies are predominantly closely linked to operational capacity (n = 21). Other studies are related to political and analytical capacity (n = 14 and 7, retrospectively). We found that there are some dilemmas and inadequacy of understanding concerning the role of features in certain capacities (such as technology use versus individual privacy, the paradox of trust and legitimacy, or centralisation versus decentralisation), particularly in the time of crisis, which is a calling for future research.

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亚洲 COVID-19 期间的政策能力：系统的文献综述

COVID-19 揭示了一些治理机构的政策能力，包括弹性和脆弱性。因此，这种情况要求公共行政学者和从业者重新思考现有的治理实践，特别是在制定有效的危机相关政策方面。本文回顾了探索政策能力在促进亚洲 COVID-19 处理中的应用的主要和次要研究。为此，我们对 2020 年 1 月至 2020 年 10 月期间发表的相关研究进行了系统的文献回顾。将商定的搜索词应用于多个数据库，我们找到了 2541 项研究，而只有 30 项被纳入审查。研究结果主要与运营能力密切相关（n = 21). 其他研究与政治和分析能力有关（n =  14 和 7，回顾性）。我们发现，对于特征在某些能力中的作用（例如技术使用与个人隐私，信任与合法性的悖论，或集中与分散），存在一些困境和理解不足，特别是在危机时期，这是对未来研究的呼吁。