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Coproduction and the crafting of cognitive institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2022

Veeshan Rayamajhee Open the ORCID record for Veeshan Rayamajhee [Opens in a new window]  and
Pablo Paniagua
Veeshan Rayamajhee
Affiliation:
Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, USA
Pablo Paniagua*
Affiliation:
Centre for the Study of Governance and Society, King's College London, London, UK
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*Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

In response to Paniagua and Rayamajhee's (2021) proposal for a polycentric approach for pandemic governance, Frolov (2022) notes that their paper focuses on preventive measures, and neglects the deeper, cognitive dimension of coproduction. In this essay, we extend the notion of coproduction to analyze the cognitive institutions that underlie social behavior during a pandemic. We analyze the role of coproduction and polycentricity in the emergence and persistence of shared mental models, including counterproductive models such as virus skepticism, conspiracy theory beliefs, and antivaccine narratives.

Keywords

Cognitive institutionsconspiracy theorycoproductionpandemic governancepolycentricity
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Journal of Institutional Economics , Volume 18 , Issue 6 , December 2022 , pp. 961 - 967
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Millennium Economics Ltd.

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