Why Covid-19 success has nothing to do with democracy

Democracy is associated with many desirable qualities: accountability, openness, freedom and justice, to name just a few. Many claims have also been made about democratic regimes: that they do not go to war with one another, that they are less prone to terrorism, and that they are more likely to prioritise health care expenditure over military expenditure. Nobel-winning economist Amartya Sen famously wrote that “no famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning…

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