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First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (416 pages) |
| Contents |
Overview -- Introduction: Democracy in Times of Corona Matthias C Kettemann and Konrad Lachmayer -- Part I: The Theory -- Power, People, and the Crisis -- 1. The Syndrome of Cincinnatus in the Theory of Constitutional Democracy / Otto Pfersmann -- 2. Extravagance: The Primacy Claim of Politics in Times of Corona / Paul Gragl Lawless -- 3. Abuse of Power and Self-Entrenchment as a State Response to Them / Antonios Kouroutakis -- 4. Reproducing the Pandemic: Disaster Relief Between the State and Civil Society / Peer Illner -- 5. Constitutional Law Presupposes a Vigilant Populace / Alexander Somek -- 6. Democracy, Death and Dying / Konrad Lachmayer -- Part II: Democracies and Pandemics -- 7. Pandemocracy in the United Kingdom: The Online Response / Robert Thomas -- 8. Germany: Federalism in Action / Pierre Thielbörger -- 9. The Coronavirus Pandemic and the Marginalisation of Parliament: What about Democracy in Italy? / Arianna Vedaschi -- 10. The Swedish Constitutional Response to the Corona Crisis -- Business as Usual? / Jane Reichel and Julia Dahlqvist -- 11. Fighting the Coronavirus Pandemic in Hungary: Crisis Management in a Semiauthoritarian System / Fruzsina Gr̀dos-Orosz and Zoltǹ Szente -- 12. Switzerland: The (Missing) Role of Parliament in Times of Crisis / Felix Uhlmann -- 13. The Flexible State of Emergency in France / Sylvia Brunet -- 14. Did the Estonian E-state Matter in Responding to the Pandemic Crisis? / Mart Susi -- Part III: Learnings -- International, Supranational and Domestic -- 15. Pandemics, Expertise and Deliberation at the International Level: The WHO's Emergency Committee / Pedro Villareal -- 16. The EU-Response to Fighting Corona -- Coordination, Support, Action? / Anja Sophie Margot Naumann -- 17. Pandemics and Platforms: Private Governance of (Dis)Information in Crisis Situations / Matthias C Kettemann -- 18. The Pandemic and Illiberal Regimes / Gbòr Halmai -- 19. Can Pandemics End Populism? / Jan-Werner Müller -- 20. Conclusions: Pandemocracy -- Governing for the People without the People? / Matthias C Kettemann and Konrad Lachmayer |
| Summary |
"When European societies win the fight against Covid-19, a democratic reckoning will start. This book explains why. Have democracies successfully mastered the challenges of the pandemic? How has the Corona virus impacted democratic principles, processes and values? At the heels of the worst public health crisis in living memory, this book shines an unforgiving light on the side-lining of parliaments, the ruling by governmental decrees and the disenfranchisement of the people in the name of fighting Covid-19. Pandemocracy in Europe situates the dramatic impact of Covid-19, and the fight against the virus, on Europe's democracies. Throughout its 20 contributions the book sets the theoretical stage and answers the democratic questions engaged by health emergencies. Eight national case studies - UK, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Hungary, Switzerland, France and Estonia - show, each time with a pronounced focus on a particular element of democracy, how different states reacted to the pandemic. The book also shifts the analytical gaze beyond the nation state towards international settings, looking at the effects on the European Union and considering the impact on the nationalistic and populist movements. Bridging disciplines and uniting a stellar cast of scholars on democracy, rule of law and constitutionalism, the book provides contours and nuances to a year of debates in political science, international relations and law on the impact of the virus on democracies. In times of uncertainty, Pandemocracy in Europe provides analysis and answers to the democratic challenges of the coronavirus."-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Subject |
COVID-19 (Disease) -- European Union countries.
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COVID-19 (Disease) -- Government policy -- European Union countries.
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Public health -- European Union countries.
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COVID-19 (Disease) (OCoLC)fst01984643
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COVID-19 (Disease) -- Government policy.
(OCoLC)fst02021820
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Public health. (OCoLC)fst01082238
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European Union countries. (OCoLC)fst01269470
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| Added Author |
Lachmayer, Konrad, editor.
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Kettemann, Matthias C., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781509946402 |
| ISBN |
9781509946396 (online) |
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9781509946372 (ePub) |
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9781509946402 (softback) |
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9781509946365 (hardback) |
| Standard No. |
10.5040/9781509946396 doi |
| ISBN |
150994639X |
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1509946373 |
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