Comparing and Contrasting the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the European Union Routledge Studies in Political Sociology Series

Comparing and Contrasting the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the European Union challenges the use of uncontextualised comparisons of COVID-19 cases and deaths in member states during the period when Europe was the epicentre of the pandemic. This timely study looks behind the headlines and the statistics to demonstrate the value for knowledge exchange and policy learning of comparisons that are founded on an in-depth understanding of key socio-demographic and public health indicators within their policy settings. The book adopts innovative, integrated, multi-disciplinary international perspectives to track and assess a fast-moving topical subject in an accessible format. It offers a template for analysing policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and for using evidence-based comparisons to inform and support policy development.

1. European National Public Healthcare Systems Compared 2. Comparing the Impacts of COVID-19 across EU Member States 3. Tracking and Comparing Government Responses to COVID-19 4. The Impact of COVID-19 in Policy Contexts 5. Contextualising the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic Within the European Union

Linda Hantrais FAcSS is Emeritus Professor of European Social Policy at Loughborough University, UK, and a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research interests span international comparative research theory, methods, management and practice, with particular reference to public policy and institutional structures in the European Union, and the relationship between socio-demographic trends and social policy.

Marie-Thérèse Letablier is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Emeritus Senior Research Fellow at the Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne-UMR 8174, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her research focusses on family policy, intergenerational relations and the work−family relationship in France, from an international comparative perspective.