Allison L. Quatrini

If citizens trust the state, they will see its directives as reasonable and worth following. [...]to the degree that Asian authoritarian political systems achieve greater legitimacy than liberal democratic counterparts, contrary to the assumption that such legitimacy requires the consent of the governed, then Asian authoritarian politics ought to be better positioned to handle public health crises. [...]even with a positive assessment of the government and in the absence of an opportunity to criticize the state, one cannot assume that this must equate to trust in the government. [...]Kleinfeld argues that there is a marked difference between voluntary compliance and government enforcement.