1st Edition

Pandemics and Public Value Management

By Usman W. Chohan Copyright 2022
178 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

178 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

178 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Widespread crisis-events such as pandemics can impose an immense strain on societies’ multi-stakeholder efforts to preserve and sustain the mechanisms of public value (PV) creation. The global coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic exemplifies this because it has pushed civil society, public managers, politicians, and society-at-large into uncharted waters, and at times brought them under exceptional... Read more

1. Introduction 2. Public Value Conflict: Lives vs. Livelihoods 3. Infodemics and Pandemics: Post-Truth Public Disvalue 4. The World Health Organization (WHO): A Public Value Perspective 5. Coronavirus & Vaccine Nationalism 6. Comparative Public Value in Developing Countries: South Asian Case Study 7. Conclusion

Biography

Usman W. Chohan, PhD, is a public value theorist who serves as Director for Economics and National Affairs at the Centre for Aerospace and Security Studies (CASS), Pakistan.