COVID-19: a dual challenge to European liberal democracy
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COVID-19 : a dual challenge to European liberal democracy. / Goetz, Klaus H. ; Martinsen, Dorte Sindbjerg.
In: West European Politics, Vol. 44, No. 5-6, 2021, p. 1003-1024.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - COVID-19
T2 - a dual challenge to European liberal democracy
AU - Goetz, Klaus H.
AU - Martinsen, Dorte Sindbjerg
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This article introduces a special issue of West European Politics on the COVID-19 crisis. It first sets out the dual challenge to democratic principles and democratic performance that the COVID-19 pandemic has posed to European liberal democracies. Three bodies of scholarship are especially relevant in framing this dual democratic challenge: those that provide accounts of policy, institutional and legitimacy crises; accounts of the governance of emergencies and of emergency politics; and accounts of political turbulence and organisational and policy responses. The articles that comprise the special issue provide comparative empirical insights into first reactions, with a focus on the responses by political decision-makers, European publics and the EU. Assessments of the likely longer-term, potentially transformative effects of COVID-19 on the principles and performance of European liberal democracies will need to draw on both sectoral and systemic perspectives, with a focus on the organisation and operation of public authority and the state.
AB - This article introduces a special issue of West European Politics on the COVID-19 crisis. It first sets out the dual challenge to democratic principles and democratic performance that the COVID-19 pandemic has posed to European liberal democracies. Three bodies of scholarship are especially relevant in framing this dual democratic challenge: those that provide accounts of policy, institutional and legitimacy crises; accounts of the governance of emergencies and of emergency politics; and accounts of political turbulence and organisational and policy responses. The articles that comprise the special issue provide comparative empirical insights into first reactions, with a focus on the responses by political decision-makers, European publics and the EU. Assessments of the likely longer-term, potentially transformative effects of COVID-19 on the principles and performance of European liberal democracies will need to draw on both sectoral and systemic perspectives, with a focus on the organisation and operation of public authority and the state.
U2 - 10.1080/01402382.2021.1930463
DO - 10.1080/01402382.2021.1930463
M3 - Journal article
VL - 44
SP - 1003
EP - 1024
JO - West European Politics
JF - West European Politics
SN - 0140-2382
IS - 5-6
ER -
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