Covid-19: A Different Economic Crisis but the Same Paradigm of Democratic Deficit in the EU

Sebastião, Dina

doi:10.17645/pag.v9i2.3923

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“…Others have found that the pandemic has not deepened existing democratic deficiencies. This case has been made the European Union [ 82 ] and some individual countries like the Czech Republic and Slovakia [ 73 , 79 ]. Lewkowicz et al [ 83 ], utilizing the V-Dem indices and the PanDem index, show that the stronger the rule of law and the higher levels of electoral democracy, the lower the risk of democratic backsliding has been in the face of the pandemic.…”

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COVID-19 and democracy: a scoping review

Sorsa,

Kivikoski

2023

BMC Public Health

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Background The resilience of democracy is tested under exogenous shocks such as crises. The COVID-19 pandemic has recently tested the resilience of democratic institutions and practices around the world. Aim The purpose of this article is to scope the early research literature that discusses democracy and the COVID-19 pandemic. We review scientific journal articles published during the first two years of the pandemic. We ask three research questions in scoping this body of literature: (1) what are the key topic areas of all published research that associates itself with both democracy and COVID-19, (2) what kinds of conceptual and theoretical contributions has research literature that more specifically discusses democracy under the pandemic produced, and (3) what are the impacts of democracy to the pandemic and vice versa according to empirical research? Methods The scoping review methodology draws on systematic literature search strategies, computational methods, and manual coding. The systematic Web of Science search produced 586 articles for which we conducted a Correlated Topic Model. After technical and manual screening, we identified 94 journal articles that were manually coded. Results The early research on democracy and the COVID-19 pandemic offers a versatile body of scholarship. The topic modeling shows that the scholarship discusses issues of crises, governance, rights, society, epidemiology, politics, electorate, technology, and media. The body of papers with conceptual and theoretical contributions has offered new insights on the difficulties, possibilities, and means to maintain democracy under a pandemic. Empirical research on democracy’s impact on the COVID-19 pandemic and vice versa varies in terms of methodology, geographical scope, and scientific contributions according to the direction of influence studied. Democracy appears to have a significant impact on some aspects of policy responses and epidemiological characteristics of the pandemic. In most parts of the world, the scope, franchise, and authenticity of democracy narrowed down due to the pandemic, albeit in most cases only temporarily. Conclusions A significant number of papers show that the pandemic has accentuated democratic backsliding but is unlikely to have undermined established democracies that have proved resilient in face of the pandemic. But empirical research has also made visible some weak signals of antidemocratic tendencies that may become more accentuated in the longer run.

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COVID-19 and democracy: a scoping review

Sorsa,

Kivikoski

2023

BMC Public Health

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Article 156 [Inter-State Cooperation]

Quesada

2023

Springer Commentaries on International and European Law

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The return of Keynesianism? Exploring path dependency and ideational change in post-covid fiscal policy

Chohan¹

2022

Policy and Society

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The aim of this article is to explore the nature of policy change in the domain of public finance (fiscal policy) in the wake of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic as well as for a post-Covid era. It draws upon the literatures of path dependency and ideational change in public policy to consider three broad questions: (1) whether the pandemic really is a critical juncture for policy change; (2) whether the extant neoliberal austerity paradigm has faced lasting ideational displacement by Keynesianism; and (3) whether Covid-19 has really punctuated the existing fiscal policy equilibrium or rather served as a path-clearing accelerator of public finance trends that were already underway. The article then suggests three potential future trajectories: Keynesian, neoliberal, and mixed/other to consider how the path of policy change might materialize in the fiscal realm in the post-Covid era.

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Covid-19: A Different Economic Crisis but the Same Paradigm of Democratic Deficit in the EU

Cited by 6 publications

References 29 publications

COVID-19 and democracy: a scoping review

COVID-19 and democracy: a scoping review

Article 156 [Inter-State Cooperation]

The return of Keynesianism? Exploring path dependency and ideational change in post-covid fiscal policy

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