Coming Together While Staying Apart : Facilitating Collective Action through Trust and Social Connection in the Age of COVID-19

Davenport, Stephen R. ; Kallaur, Emily ; Kunicova, Jana

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: CORONAVIRUS;    COVID-19;    PANDEMIC RESPONSE;    GOVERNANCE;    COLLECTIVE ACTION;   

RP-ID  :  151429

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Facing the COVID-19 pandemic requires anunprecedented degree of cooperation between governments andcitizens and across all facets of society to implementspatial distancing and other policy measures. This paperproposes to think about handling the pandemic as acollective action problem that can be alleviated by policiesthat foster trust and social connection. Policy andinstitutional recommendations are presented according to athree-layered pandemic response generally corresponding toshort-, medium-, and long-term needs. This paper focuses onbuilding connection and cooperation as means to bring aboutbetter health and socioeconomic outcomes. Many factorsoutside the paper’s scope, such as health policy choices,will greatly affect the outcomes. As such, the paperexplores the role of trust, communication, and collaborationconditional on sound health and economic policy choices.