TY - BOOK AU - WONG Wilson AU - WU Alfred M. TI - State or civil society - what matters in fighting COVID-19?: a comparative analysis of Hong Kong and Singapore PY - 2022/// KW - COVID-19 KW - COMPARATIVE POLICY ANALYSIS KW - POLICY CAPACITY KW - POLITICAL NEXUS TRIADS KW - STATE-SOCIETY RELATIONS KW - MULTIPLE CONFIGURATIONAL CAUSALITY KW - HONG KONG KW - SINGAPORE N2 - This article investigates the nuanced and disaggregated role of state and civil society in the fight against COVID-19 in Hong Kong and Singapore through a comparative policy study. Hong Kong and Singapore provide two contrasting cases of state-society interaction under the framework of Political Nexus Triads (PNT). Hong Kong combats COVID-19 with greater dependence on its civil society and bureaucrats, while Singapore relies more on a state-centred approach. They represent the diversity of state-society relations and multiple configurational causality in the COVID-19 responses and question the efficacy of any single and contextless model UR - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13876988.2021.1978819 ER -