Unpacking the blackbox of responsible pandemic governance: of COVID-19, multilevel governance and state capacity in Ghana – A Review

Vincent Ekow Arkorful

doi:10.1007/s11115-022-00622-z

Unpacking the blackbox of responsible pandemic governance: of COVID-19, multilevel governance and state capacity in Ghana – A Review

Vincent Ekow Arkorful^*

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Academy of Geography, Sociology and International Studies

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Abstract

Attempts at mitigating COVID-19 pandemic’s impact has pushed stakeholders’ resolve to incept variegated measures using socially embedded multilevel government structures. Given Ghana’s pandemic governance success, this paper reviews government’s nuanced and disaggregated roles in galvanizing social support towards developing, implementing and coordinating pandemic measures. By highlighting the diversity of state-society inter-agency relations, the current study unearths varying stakeholder engagements and their imperativeness to pandemic governance, and acknowledges multilevel governance as critical to fighting the pandemic.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	667–683
Number of pages	17
Journal	Public Organization Review
Volume	23
Issue number	2
Early online date	13 Apr 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11115-022-00622-z
Publication status	Published - Jun 2023

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