Covid-19 and the Return of the State in Africa

IF 0.9 4区社会学 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Politikon Pub Date : 2021-04-03 DOI:10.1080/02589346.2021.1913805

Siphamandla Zondi

引用次数: 6

Abstract

ABSTRACT As African countries battled the Covid-19 crisis in 2020, one of the questions that were raised was whether the state was taking a central stage in the affairs of society, especially solutions to major problems. The question was triggered by the fact that there has been a decline in the capacity, role and prestige of the state in Africa for decades. Yet it seems that the responses to Covid-19, following the WHO guidelines, have placed the state at the centre, without dislocating other stakeholders like the private sector and the civil society. This paper uses the evidence from a select number of African countries of different sizes in various regions of the continent to provide an empirical perspective on the role of the state in Covid-19 responses in 2020 to answer the question of whether Covid-19 has occasioned a return of the state, thus reversing the neoliberal designs in favour of a lean and mean state in Africa.

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2019冠状病毒病与国家回归非洲

随着非洲国家在2020年抗击新冠肺炎危机，人们提出的一个问题是，国家是否在社会事务中占据中心地位，特别是在解决重大问题方面。这个问题是由这样一个事实引发的:几十年来，国家在非洲的能力、作用和声望一直在下降。然而，根据世卫组织的指导方针，对Covid-19的应对措施似乎将国家置于中心地位，而没有使私营部门和民间社会等其他利益攸关方陷入混乱。本文使用来自非洲大陆不同地区不同规模的若干非洲国家的证据，为国家在2020年应对Covid-19中的作用提供了一个实证视角，以回答Covid-19是否引发了国家的回归，从而扭转了新自由主义的设计，有利于非洲的精简和平均国家。

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Politikon POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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1.90

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0.00%

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审稿时长

32 weeks

期刊介绍： Politikon focuses primarily on South African politics, but not exclusively so. Over the years the journal has published articles by some of the world" leading political scientists, including Arend Lijphart, Samuel Huntingdon, and Philippe Schmitter. It has also featured important contributions from South Africa"s leading political philosophers, political scientists and international relations experts. It has proved an influential journal, particularly in debates over the merits of South Africa"s constitutional reforms (in 1983 and 1994). In the last few years special issues have focused on women and politics in South Africa, and the South African election of 1999.