Covid-19 vaccines and the competition between independent and politicised models of regulation

Posted on 29 March 2021

Blog from Eva Heims

In her latest blog post on LSE European politics and policy, "Covid-19 vaccines and the competition between independent and politicised models of regulation" Eva Heims and Slobodan Tomic from SPSW say the regulatory approaches used to approve Covid-19 vaccines vary substantially across different countries.

While some states assign responsibility for vaccine approval to independent regulatory agencies, politicians in other states have greater scope to influence decision-making. Eva Heims and Slobodan Tomic write that the current push to roll out vaccination programmes as quickly as possible is shining a light on competition between these independent and politicised models of regulation.