http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20210511-091104-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/a-stress-test-for-politics-insights-from-the-comparative-covid-response-project-compcore-2020/ A Stress Test for Politics: Insights from the Comparative Covid Response Project (CompCoRe) 2020 Jasanoff, Sheila Hilgartner, Stephen eng 2021-05-11 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Comparative Covid Response Project (CompCoRe) COVID 19 Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 The CompCoRe study, an ongoing qualitative comparison of policy responses to Covid-19 in sixteen core countries and two affiliates, begun in April 2020, sought to identify and explain patterns of perceived success and failure in managing this multifaceted crisis. [...] As national and international authorities look to futures beyond Covid-19, a lesson emerging from our study is that they should revisit their institutional processes for integrating scientific and political consensus-building. If free citizens are unable to see how expertise is serving the collective good, they will sooner rebel against the experts than give up their independence. Just as a sound mind is said to require a sound body, so the coronavirus has shown that the credibility of public health expertise depends on the health of the body politic.