Democracy in Times of Pandemic: Different Futures Imagined

Cambridge University Press, 11/12/2020
EAN 9781108845366, ISBN10: 1108845363

Hardcover, 250 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented an important case study, on a global scale, of how democracy works - and fails to work - today. From leadership to citizenship, from due process to checks and balances, from globalization to misinformation, from solidarity within and across borders to the role of expertise, key democratic concepts both old and new are now being put to the test. The future of democracy around the world is at issue as today's governments manage their responses to the pandemic. Bringing together some of today's most creative thinkers, these essays offer a variety of inquiries into democracy during the global pandemic with a view to imagining post-crisis political conditions. Representing different regions and disciplines, including law, politics, philosophy, religion, and sociology, eighteen voices offer different outlooks - optimistic and pessimistic - on the future.

Introduction
a new beginning Miguel Poiares Maduro and Paul W. Kahn
Part I. Power
1. The crisis of democratic leadership in times of pandemic Neil Walker
2. Executive overreach and underreach in the pandemic Kim Lane Scheppele and David Pozen
3. From political accountability to criminal liability
the strange case of French penal populism Olivier Beaud
4. Democracy and emergency in Latin America Roberto Gargarella
5. Apocalyptic Christianity, democracy, and the pandemic Stanley Hauerwas
Part II. Knowledge
6. The reckoning
evaluating democratic leadership Michael Ignatieff
7. The irrelevance of the pandemic Samuel Moyn
8. Emergency, democracy and public discourse Moshe Halbertal
9. Understanding, deciding, and learning
the key political challenges in times of pandemic Daniel Innerarity
Part III. Citizens
10. COVID, Europe and the self-asphyxiation of democracy J. H. H. Weiler
11. Corona as chance
overcoming the tyranny of self-interest Susan Neiman
12. Re-imagined democracy in times of pandemic Kalypso Nicolaïdes
13. Redefining vulnerability and state-society relationships during the COVID-19 crisis
the politics of social welfare funds in India and Italy Deval Desai, Shalini Randeria and Christine Lutringer
14. Democracy and the obligations of care
a demos worthy of sacrifice Paul W. Kahn.