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Pandemocracy in Europe: Power, Parliaments and People in Times of COVID-19

Pandemocracy in Europe: Power, Parliaments and People in Times of COVID-19

Author: Matthias C. Kettemann; Konrad Lachmayer
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 9781509946402

Published In: June 2023
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only
Hardback Edition ISBN: 9781509946365

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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.

Overview

Introduction: Democracy in Times of COVID-19

Matthias C. Kettemann and Konrad Lachmayer

Part I: The Theory – Power, People, and the Crisis

1. Lawless Extravagance: The Primacy Claim of Politics and the State of Exception in Times of COVID-19

Paul Gragl

2. Abuse of Power and Self-Entrenchment as a State Response to the COVID-19 Outbreak: The Role of Parliaments, Courts and the People

Antonios Kouroutakis

3. Democracy, Death and Dying

Konrad Lachmayer

Part II: Democracies and Pandemics

4. Virus Governance in the United Kingdom

Robert Thomas

5. Germany - Federalism in Action

Pierre Thielbörger

6. The Marginalisation of Parliament in Facing the Coronavirus Emergency: What about Democracy in Italy?

Arianna Vedaschi

7. Swedish Constitutional Response to the Corona Crisis – The Odd One Out?

Jane Reichel and Julia Dahlqvist

8. Using Emergency Powers in Hungary: Against the Pandemic and/or Democracy?

Fruzsina Gárdos-Orosz and Zoltán Szente

9. Switzerland: The (Missing) Role of Parliament in Times of Crisis

Felix Uhlmann

10. The Hyper-Executive State of Emergency in France

Sylvia Brunet

11. Digital Human Rights Proportionality During Global Crisis

Mart Susi

Part III: Beyond States: Impacts of Non-State Actors on Democracy in Times of Covid-19

12. Pandemics, Expertise and Deliberation at the International Level

Pedro Villareal

13. EU-Response to Fighting Corona - Coordination, Support, Action – Heeding its Citizens' calls?

Anja Sophie Margot Naumann

14. Pandemics and Platforms: Private Governance of (Dis)Information in Crisis Situations

Matthias C. Kettemann and Marie-Therese Sekwenz

Part IV Conclusions: Pandemics, Populism and Power

15. The Pandemic and Illiberal Constitutional Theories

Gábor Halmai

16. Populism versus Democracy during a Pandemic: Some Preliminary Considerations

Jan-Werner Müller

17. Pandemocracy – Governing for the People without the People?

Matthias C. Kettemann and Konrad Lachmayer

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