ABSTRACT
The study showed that the COVID-19 pandemic had highlighted the important role of states’ apparatus. It also pointed out that the response of states to the economic phenomena resulting from the pandemic had consisted of measures representing the transition of states from an external controllability to an internal controllability model, in which the locus of control placed itself in a position characterising actors operating under conditions of greatly reduced rationality. The initial response of countries to the COVID-19 pandemic was fairly homogenous, with a high level of imitativeness; as time passed and the transition from an external controllability to a relatively internal controllability model took place, the means of regulatory intervention varied considerably, was tested positively. The diversity of measures of regulatory intervention was strongly determined by the ability to activate internal and external resources of the state, and the intervention scenario with respect to the economy was strongly determined by (a) what the state used as measures to combat the pandemic in the external controllability phase and (b) the influence of the external environment, the strength of the impact of which was determined by the strength of links of the states’ economies with the world.
