Manufacturing Government Communication on Covid-19

Chapter 1. Similar and Dissimilar Patterns of Government Communication on COVID-19.- Part I. Organizing Centralized Government Strategies.- Chapter 2. Pros and Cons of the Eu Response and Communication During COVID-19 Crisis.- Chapter 3. Fighting COVID-19 by State Mobilization: China in the Lens of Social Constructivism.- Chapter 4. Crisis Communication During the First Wave of the Pandemics: the Latvia's Case.- Chapter 5. South Korea: Positive to Negative Attention.- Chapter 6. No Lockdown, please, We Are Swedish: How the Middle Way Country Suddenly Became the Extreme Case of Government Communication.- Part II. Local Versus National.- Chapter 7. National Leadership Versus Regional Command: The Case of the Spanish COVID-19 Crisis.- Chapter 8. Rituals and Reassurance: Government Communication in Australia During the COVID-19 Pandemic.- Chapter 9. Efforts in Communicating Science in Brazil in a Context of a Denialist Government and Contradictory Realities.- Chapter 10. Government Communication Policy for Dealing with the COVID-19, the Case of Israel: How to Explain to Groups with Unique Communication Characteristics a Universal Phenomenon.- Part III. Taking the Leader's Way.- Chapter 11. "Trump Confronts COVID - in Press Briefings and on Twitter".- Chapter 12. Between Empathy and Threat: Legitimation Strategies and Rhetorical Appeals in Angela Merkel's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic.- Chapter 13. Italian Government Communication from Giuseppe Conte to Mario Draghi: Between 'permissive Consensus' and 'leadership Building'.- Part IV. The Weight of Government Credibility.- Chapter 14. The Greeks and the Coronavirus Pandemic: Assessing the Credibility and Effectiveness of Social Institutions and Public Sphere Players.- Chapter 15. The UK: 'not One Rule for Everyone' and the Impact of Elite Rule-breaking on Public Trust.- Chapter 16. The Messenger and the Message: South African Government Communication During the COVID-19 Pandemic.- Chapter 17. Pushing Through Own

Philippe J. Maarek, is a professor of political communication at the Paris Est Créteil University (UPEC), France, a former president of the Political Communication Research Sections of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) and a former member of the Institute of Communication Science of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). Currently of  a member of the Sic.Lab Méditerranée (Nice, France), Philippe J. Maarek is the founder and director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Political and Public Communication (CECCOPOP) and is the co-founder and former director of the Public and Political Communication Department at the University of Paris-East, France. He has been awarded the prestigious French order "Legion d'Honneur".

"J. Maarek's edited volume explores the content and effect of government communications about Covid-19 in variety of countries around the globe. ... each chapter made for an interesting read ... . this book remains impressive in its scope and its attention to government communications efforts on Covid-19 in a variety of contexts." (Travis N. Ridout, French Politics, Vol. 21 (4), 2023)