Restrictions on south american democracies and Covid-19

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Abstract

In this article, we studied how much of the restriction measures taken in the framework of the Covid-19 pandemic in South America, between March 2020 and April 2021, respond to the state of the main South American democracies. The main argument is that this last variable, specifically its deterioration, is more important than others related to the dynamics of the pandemic, such as the increase in daily cases and deaths per million inhabitants. Although this hypothesis is partially verified, the effect is particularly sensitive to different national realities and cases. Models with non-linearity adjustments and differentiated intercepts were used in the estimation.

Keywords:

Democratización, Medidas de restricción, Covid-19, América del Sur, modelamiento no lineal

Author Biographies

Rodrigo Andrés Cuevas Ossandón, Universidad de Valparaíso

Doctor en Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Chile. Escuela de Administración Pública (Campus Santiago), Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile.

Antonia Pérez Cornejo, Universidad de Chile

Estudiante Licenciatura en Estudios Internacionales, Universidad de Chile.

María Jesús Ramírez Pinto, Universidad de Chile

Estudiante Licenciatura en Estudios Internacionales, Universidad de Chile