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Statistics and political management during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic in Argentina
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Daniel, Claudia, Marchesini, Natalia Romero and Lanata-Briones, Cecilia (2022) Statistics and political management during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic in Argentina. Sociologias, 24 (60). pp. 16-49. doi:10.1590/18070337-121417EN ISSN 1517-4522.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/18070337-121417EN
Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic triggered the generation as well as the ample circulation of health statistics. This article examines the role that Covid-19 statistics acquired in the management of the Argentine health emergency. Argentina adopted lockdown measures early and initially had a strict social confinement with subsequent relaxations that became a coordination challenge in a society in crisis. This research followed a
qualitative methodological strategy supported by systematic analysis of regulations, government reports, press articles, and presidential press conferences. On the one hand, the article explores the institutional structure behind the elaboration of Covid-19 statistics, focusing on statistical classifications, and underlines the tensions to which it was exposed. On the other hand, it shows how statistics were used to
bestow legitimacy to the decisions of the political authority, staged in true rituals of quantification, as they were a means through which that authority was exercised. In addition to attributing meaning to a shared experience, statistical indicators became a device for coordinating action at a distance and from the center, restricting the margins of discretionary action of the subnational authorities and operating as an external and impersonal mechanism of regulation in a society disrupted by an
exceptional situation.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | COVID-19 (Disease) -- Argentina -- Statistics, COVID-19 (Disease) -- Transmission -- Argentina -- Statistics, COVID-19 (Disease) -- Argentina, Epidemics -- Argentina, Sociology -- Statistical methods, COVID-19 (Disease) -- Politics and government -- Econometric models, Emergency management -- Argentina, COVID-19 (Disease) -- Political aspects -- Argentina | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Sociologias | ||||||
Publisher: | Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul | ||||||
ISSN: | 1517-4522 | ||||||
Official Date: | May 2022 | ||||||
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Volume: | 24 | ||||||
Number: | 60 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 16-49 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1590/18070337-121417EN | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 7 December 2022 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 7 December 2022 |
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