Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/279890 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
Ilmenau Economics Discussion Papers No. 182
Publisher: 
Technische Universität Ilmenau, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Ilmenau
Abstract: 
The COVID pandemic caused the political competition between the prime ministers of the German states to reach its peak. Whoever is the best at announcing, launching, or implementing policies to combat the pandemic can hope to capitalize most politically. In this paper, we attempt to document which state leaders are forerunners or latecomers in this political competition, when going more into depth of a region's contextual factors. Based on several databases, we perform a survival analysis to compare state leaders' relative determination to implement COVID policies. As our results show, the forerunners in the political discourse are not necessarily forerunners in the implementation, nor in the enforcement of COVID policies.
Subjects: 
Corona
COVID
political competition
institutions
survival analysis
JEL: 
D7
H7
H11
H12
R5
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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