The Effect of Government Type on COVID-19 Restrictions

Were authoritarian governments more likely to enact more restrictive COVID-19 measures than democratic governments?

At first glance, it seems that authoritarian governments had much quicker initial responses to COVID-19 than did democratic governments. But is this a correct statement? (Image by author)

It’s been over a year since the first outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, we have seen countries dealing with the pandemic in vastly different ways, and many people have…