Abstract
This chapter unpacks the question of how COVID-19 and the crisis-driven responses to address the pandemic can contribute to wider national goals relating to forging or strengthening national social contracts—that tie bold new policy visions to robust and resilient systems and institutional arrangements. It also explores social contracts that transform harmful structural legacies and strengthen social contracts. Such social contracts are adaptive, evolve, and sustain in the face of crisis. They also hold promise for ever-greater levels of well-being for all in society. The chapter first introduces the discussion of building back better from crisis, and how social contract framing can support these aims. Two sets of cases and evidence are then considered: what drives resilient social contracts on the one hand, and what drives successful COVID-19 responses on the other. A synthesis analysis of how the two can be pursued simultaneously is then put forth.
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Notes
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An esteemed international advisory group supported this work, directed by the author (see www.socialcontracts4peace.org). Case studies were led by national authors.
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Polls, however, suggest that the majority of Americans place trust in the advice of the medical experts advising government on the crisis (Fukuyama 2020).
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Those higher on religious orthodoxy, political conservativism, and conspiracy ideation trust science less and comply less.
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NEDLAC was set up in 1994 in an early act of the new post-apartheid parliament to advance dialogue in the public interest.
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The 2018 Afrobarometer polled South Africans’ sense of identity, first with race (51.4%), followed by language, religion, economic class, and last, being South African (18.8%).
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Adaptive leadership—the ability to collectively identify the effects of interventions (and their combinations)—is gaining traction as a method to manage disease outbreaks (Ramalingam et al. 2020, 3).
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This term describes how disagreements at the heart of conflict translate into political and legal institutions, which become the basis for continuing negotiation (Bell and Pospisil 2017).
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Social cohesion lies within South Africa’s NDP Vision 2030, and is one of seven government priorities (https://www.gov.za/issues/key-issues).
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