Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic

M. Jae Moon is Underwood Distinguished Professor of Public Administration as well as Director of the Institute for Future Government at Yonsei University, South Korea. He was the former Dean of the College of Social Sciences, Yonsei University, South Korea. He has been co‑chairing the Infectious Disease Study Group of the National Research Council for Economics, Humanities, and Social Sciences under the Prime Minister’s Office. He is an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA). He served as International Director of the American Society for Public Administration and Vice President of the Korean Association of Public Administration as well as the Korean Association of Policy Studies. He was selected as one of world’s 100 most influential people in Digital Government 2018 and 2019 consecutively by Apolitical, which is a London‑based leading nonprofit organization. He also received Order of Service Merit‑Red Stripe from the Government of the Republic of Korea for his contribution to the public sector innovations as well as the Donald C. Stone Award from the American Society for Public Administration in 2020.Dong‑Young Kim is Associate Professor and Director of the Master’s in Development Policy program at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, South Korea. His research interests include theory and practice of public dispute resolution and negotiation in developing countries, participatory and collaborative governance, and environmental policy and sustainable development. Dr. Kim has 15 years of experience as a lecturer, researcher, and trainer on public dispute resolution, consensus building, negotiation, and participatory governance. He has extensive experience in training mid‑career and senior government officials from many developing countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East and in consulting various government institutions, such as the Prime Minister’s Office, the Ministry of Environment, and the Ministry of Public Health and Welfare, public corporations, such as Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO), private sectors, such as Nong‑Hyup, Citi Bank, Industrial Bank of Korea, and Pfizer Korea, and non‑governmental organizations in Korea.

• 1. International Comparative Analysis of COVID-19 Responses 2. Germany’s Responses to COVID-19: Crisis Governance in a Multilevel System 3. Sweden’s Responses to COVID-19 4. Finland’s Responses to COVID-19: Uneven, Fairly Effective, and Craving to Return to Normal 5. The United States’ Responses to COVID-19: Science, Uncertainty, and Partisanship 6. Aotearoa New Zealand’s Responses to COVID-19 7. South Korea’s Responses to COVID-19 8. Japan’s Responses to COVID-19 9. Thailand’s Responses to COVID-19 and the Acceleration of Public Sector Reform 10. Vietnam’s Responses to COVID-19: Local Governance and Bureaucratic Coordination 11. Conclusions and Policy Implications