2022
DOI: 10.1080/21599165.2022.2122045
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Riders on the storm: the politics of disruption in European member states during the COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract: This paper explores how democracies handle the trade-off between public safety and fundamental democratic principles. We show that an exogenous shock, like the pandemic, creates incentives for governing elites to deploy self-empowering mechanisms to avoid institutional checks and balances -with lasting consequences for democratic performance. We examine this prospect in Italy and Romania. These cases have a long history of institutional gridlock; such history reinforces incentives to work around traditional in… Show more

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“…During the financial crisis, this led to the downfall of the Ungureanu cabinet and to the formation of Ponta I. During the pandemic, such self-aggrandizing policies led to maintaining prime minister Ludovic Orban in power, despite his losing the support of the legislative majority (Anghel and Jones 2022).…”
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“…During the financial crisis, this led to the downfall of the Ungureanu cabinet and to the formation of Ponta I. During the pandemic, such self-aggrandizing policies led to maintaining prime minister Ludovic Orban in power, despite his losing the support of the legislative majority (Anghel and Jones 2022).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The COVID-19 pandemic also revealed patterns of opportunistic behaviour within the PNL leadership (Anghel and Jones 2022). The advent of the pandemic overlapped a constitutional conflict between president Klaus Iohannis and the legislative majority over the nomination of a prime minister.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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