El Estado, la Ciudad y el Virus: Una explicación política de la crisis del COVID-19 en Guayaquil

Despite the media attention given to this development, and the now abundant literature on the pandemic, there have been no attempts to explain the Guayaquil crisis. Using a case centric process tracing the present investigation argues that the existence of two differentiated political regimes, one acting at the national level and the other at the sub-national level (Guayaquil), caused the simultaneous collapse of the citys public hospitals and funeral services. The phenomenon studied is relevant both for the literature on subnational regimes and for discussing public health policies. Finalmente, una tercera corriente de investigación se enfocó en los impactos económicos y sociales de la crisis (World Bank, 2020;Nurat, 2020;Blofelt et al., 2020, etc).