“Citizen response to pandemics, authorities’ nightmare or daydream?”

Ira Helsloot and Sandra Quinn, of the University of Pittsburgh, presented a paper on citizen respond to pandemics during the annual congress of the American Political ScienceAssociation (APSA). Helsloot and Quinn conducted research as to how governments prepare themselves to possible outbreaks of pandemic diseases. According to both, governments tend not acknowledge the fact that citizens can provide valuable support as well. As a result an integral approach is required in which citizens, society and government prepare themselves for a possible pandemic. The research can be downloaded by clicking here.