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

Edited by: Matthias C. Kettemann, Konrad Lachmayer

ISBN13: 9781509946365
Published: December 2021
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
Price: £90.00
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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.

Subjects:
Constitutional and Administrative Law, European Jurisdictions
Contents:
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