A Study Based on Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Multi-Cause Analysis and Mechanism Exploration of “Underachieving Students Against COVID-19” in Europe

Caikun Cheng

2022

Abstract

The COVID-19 epidemic has been spreading around the world for three years. Europe, which has the highest concentration of countries with a high human civilization index, has shown extremely poor performance against the pandemic. I paid attention to this phenomenon and conducted qualitative comparative analysis on the cases of 58 European countries, to explore the reasons and mechanisms for the European region to become the concentration area of "underachieving students against COVID-19". The analysis results showed that there were four parallel combinations of causes that made European countries "underachieving students against COVID-19": (1) "Loose lockdown" * "Democratic regime" * "High population density"; (2) "Loose lockdown" * "Democratic regime" * "High tertiary GDP share"; (3) "Loose lockdown" * "Non-democratic regime" * "Low vaccination rate" * "Low tertiary GDP share"; (4) "Democratic regime" * "High vaccination rate" * "High population density" * "High tertiary GDP share". Combinations of four causes comprehensively, Europe as "underachieving students against COVID-19" has concentrated the main mechanism for: Europe’s high democracy index under the voice of the people for freedom and the demands of the development of the third industry and traffic control measures, had to give up severely coupled with a high population density helped the spread of the virus, finally led to COVID-19 outbreak of a pandemic. In addition, the results show that high vaccination rates did not become a major factor in the success of the European epidemic, while the adoption of stringent containment measures had a very crucial impact on the success of the European epidemic.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Cheng C. (2022). A Study Based on Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Multi-Cause Analysis and Mechanism Exploration of “Underachieving Students Against COVID-19” in Europe. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Economic Management and Model Engineering - Volume 1: ICEMME; ISBN 978-989-758-636-1, SciTePress, pages 766-777. DOI: 10.5220/0012043900003620

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icemme22,
author={Caikun Cheng},
title={A Study Based on Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Multi-Cause Analysis and Mechanism Exploration of “Underachieving Students Against COVID-19” in Europe},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Economic Management and Model Engineering - Volume 1: ICEMME},
year={2022},
pages={766-777},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012043900003620},
isbn={978-989-758-636-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Economic Management and Model Engineering - Volume 1: ICEMME
TI - A Study Based on Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Multi-Cause Analysis and Mechanism Exploration of “Underachieving Students Against COVID-19” in Europe
SN - 978-989-758-636-1
AU - Cheng C.
PY - 2022
SP - 766
EP - 777
DO - 10.5220/0012043900003620
PB - SciTePress