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Kerala’s Strategies on COVIDPatrick Heller
Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs
Brown University, USA
State Variation in Federal Democracies
Overview
• Strategies• Epidemiological and welfare• Human resource mobilization
But strategy only as good as delivery system:
• Executive decision-making
• State capacity and the chain of command• Infrastructural• Coordination
• Inter-agency• Inter-level
• State-Civil Society Synergy
• Citizenship and trust
Strategy
• Plan, plan and plan (people’s plan, nipah, floods)
• Identify, trace, test and isolate
• Anticipate and address welfare effects
• Mobilize institutions and people
• Build trust
Executive decision making
• Central point of coordination
• Expertise over politics
• Communication
• Setting a moral standard
State capacity and chain of decision-making
• Infrastructural• Public health care system
• Coordination• Inter-agency
• Authoritative• Mobilizing and binding officials
• Eliciting compliance
• Decentralized
State-Civil Society Synergy
• Co-production• Mobilizing societal resources
• Kudumbasree
Citizenship and trust
• Eliciting compliance
• Enforcement and participation• Social distancing and surveillance coupled with welfare and participation
Policy lessons
• Kerala exceptionalism?
• Wide variation in state responses
• All hands on deck
• Plan and coordinate
• Work with civil society
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