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Abstract
Countries around the world find themselves trapped in a social dilemma amid the COVID-19 pandemic when most mitigation policies require sacrificing individuals’ interests for collective wellbeing. By examining Taiwan’s policy responses, this paper finds that while the cooperation for collective action does play a role, the main ingredient for its unexpected success is minimizing the grand-scale social dilemma, rather than fighting it head-to-head, through a set of carefully-designed measures. This paper further argues that Taiwan’s strategies are made possible by three underlying conditions that help to solve a series of collective action problems: The institutionalization and capacity building before the pandemic, the social coordination since the outbreak, and the political pressure from China. MINIMIZANDO EL DILEMA SOCIAL: EL INESPERADO EXITO DE TAIWAN EN LA LUCHA CONTRA LA PANDEMIA COVID-19 RESUMEN El mundo se encuentra atrapado en un dilema social dentro de la pandemia COVID-19 cuando la mayoria de las politicas de migracion requieren el sacrificio de los intereses individuales para el bienestar colectivo. Mediante el examen de las respuestas de politica de Taiwan, en este articulo argumentamos que mientras la cooperacion para la accion colectiva desempena un papel, el principal ingrediente del exito inesperado de este pais es la minimizacion del dilema social de gran escala, mas que la lucha directa contra la pandemia, a traves de un conjunto de medidas disenadas de forma cuidadosa. Argumentamos, ademas, que las estrategias de Taiwan son posibles debido a tres condiciones subyacentes que contribuyen a resolver una serie de problemas de accion colectiva: la institucionalizacion y la construccion de capacidades ante la pandemia, la coordinacion social desde la irrupcion de esta y la presion politica de China.
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