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

Facing the COVID-19 pandemic requires an unprecedented degree of cooperation between governments and citizens and across all facets of society to implement spatial distancing and other policy measures. This paper proposes to think about handling th...

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Main Authors: Davenport, Stephen R., Kallaur, Emily, Kunicova, Jana
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/572121596564616810/Coming-Together-While-Staying-Apart-Facilitating-Collective-Action-through-Trust-and-Social-Connection-in-the-Age-of-COVID-19
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spelling okr-10986-342852021-05-25T09:57:54Z 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 CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 PANDEMIC RESPONSE GOVERNANCE COLLECTIVE ACTION SOCIAL CONNECTION TRUST ECONOMIC RECOVERY RESILIENCE RECONSTRUCTION LEGITIMACY GOVERNMENT REFORM Facing the COVID-19 pandemic requires an unprecedented degree of cooperation between governments and citizens and across all facets of society to implement spatial distancing and other policy measures. This paper proposes to think about handling the pandemic as a collective action problem that can be alleviated by policies that foster trust and social connection. Policy and institutional recommendations are presented according to a three-layered pandemic response generally corresponding to short-, medium-, and long-term needs. This paper focuses on building connection and cooperation as means to bring about better health and socioeconomic outcomes. Many factors outside the paper’s scope, such as health policy choices, will greatly affect the outcomes. As such, the paper explores the role of trust, communication, and collaboration conditional on sound health and economic policy choices. 2020-08-06T15:33:04Z 2020-08-06T15:33:04Z 2020-07 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/572121596564616810/Coming-Together-While-Staying-Apart-Facilitating-Collective-Action-through-Trust-and-Social-Connection-in-the-Age-of-COVID-19 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34285 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper
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topic CORONAVIRUS
COVID-19
PANDEMIC RESPONSE
GOVERNANCE
COLLECTIVE ACTION
SOCIAL CONNECTION
TRUST
ECONOMIC RECOVERY
RESILIENCE
RECONSTRUCTION
LEGITIMACY
GOVERNMENT REFORM
spellingShingle CORONAVIRUS
COVID-19
PANDEMIC RESPONSE
GOVERNANCE
COLLECTIVE ACTION
SOCIAL CONNECTION
TRUST
ECONOMIC RECOVERY
RESILIENCE
RECONSTRUCTION
LEGITIMACY
GOVERNMENT REFORM
Davenport, Stephen R.
Kallaur, Emily
Kunicova, Jana
Coming Together While Staying Apart : Facilitating Collective Action through Trust and Social Connection in the Age of COVID-19
description Facing the COVID-19 pandemic requires an unprecedented degree of cooperation between governments and citizens and across all facets of society to implement spatial distancing and other policy measures. This paper proposes to think about handling the pandemic as a collective action problem that can be alleviated by policies that foster trust and social connection. Policy and institutional recommendations are presented according to a three-layered pandemic response generally corresponding to short-, medium-, and long-term needs. This paper focuses on building connection and cooperation as means to bring about better health and socioeconomic outcomes. Many factors outside the paper’s scope, such as health policy choices, will greatly affect the outcomes. As such, the paper explores the role of trust, communication, and collaboration conditional on sound health and economic policy choices.
format Working Paper
author Davenport, Stephen R.
Kallaur, Emily
Kunicova, Jana
author_facet Davenport, Stephen R.
Kallaur, Emily
Kunicova, Jana
author_sort Davenport, Stephen R.
title Coming Together While Staying Apart : Facilitating Collective Action through Trust and Social Connection in the Age of COVID-19
title_short Coming Together While Staying Apart : Facilitating Collective Action through Trust and Social Connection in the Age of COVID-19
title_full Coming Together While Staying Apart : Facilitating Collective Action through Trust and Social Connection in the Age of COVID-19
title_fullStr Coming Together While Staying Apart : Facilitating Collective Action through Trust and Social Connection in the Age of COVID-19
title_full_unstemmed Coming Together While Staying Apart : Facilitating Collective Action through Trust and Social Connection in the Age of COVID-19
title_sort coming together while staying apart : facilitating collective action through trust and social connection in the age of covid-19
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2020
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/572121596564616810/Coming-Together-While-Staying-Apart-Facilitating-Collective-Action-through-Trust-and-Social-Connection-in-the-Age-of-COVID-19
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