Skip to main content
Book cover
  • Book
  • © 2022

Democracy after Covid

Challenges in Europe and Beyond

Editors:

  1. Kostas Chrysogonos

    1. Faculty of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Anna Tsiftsoglou

    1. Faculty of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • Provides the first comparative constitutional law & policy analysis of COVID-19-related democratic challenges

  • Critically assesses cutting-edge topics including emergency legislation or judicial review of COVID-19 measures

  • Launches an international discussion on future pandemics and global democratic backsliding

Sections

eBook USD 119.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • ISBN: 978-3-031-13901-7
  • Instant PDF download
  • Readable on all devices
  • Own it forever
  • Exclusive offer for individuals only
  • Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout
Hardcover Book USD 159.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
Learn about institutional subscriptions

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution.

Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
    PDF

  2. The COVID-19 Pandemic as a State of Exception?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
      PDF

    2. The Pandemic as an Idiosyncratic Case of a State of Exception

      • Kostas Chrysogonos, Panagiotis Viopoulos
      Pages 3-21

  3. Executives and Parliaments in a Pandemic

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
      PDF

    4. COVID-19 and the Federal State

      • Ekkehard Hofmann
      Pages 77-89

  4. Balancing and Judicial Scrutiny in a Pandemic

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111
      PDF

    3. The Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights in the Coronavirus Pandemic in Germany

      • Wolfgang Kahl, Konstantina-Antigoni Poulou
      Pages 125-146

    4. The Impact of the Pandemic on the Greek Constitution

      • Ioannis A. Tassopoulos
      Pages 147-159

  5. Conclusions: Liberal Democracy After COVID-19

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175
      PDF

    2. Conclusions: Liberal Democracy After COVID-19: Challenges in Europe and Beyond

      • Kostas Chrysogonos, Anna Tsiftsoglou
      Pages 177-181
Back to top

About this book

This book, one of the first of its kind, explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on modern Western democracies from a comparative constitutional law and policy perspective. Through 11 scholarly contributions, it tackles cutting-edge topics for the liberal state, such as emergency legislation, judicial scrutiny of COVID-19 measures, parliamentarism and executive decision-making during the pandemic. The book examines these topics both from a microscopic national constitutional angle, with a focus on European states, and from a macroscopic regional and comparative angle, on par with the American example. The COVID-19 pandemic is thus treated as an international state of emergency that has enabled far-reaching restrictions on essential human rights, such as freedom of movement, freedom of religion or even major political rights, while giving rise to the ‘administrative state.’

This edited volume explores each of these pressing themes in this exceptional context and evaluates different liberal states’ responses to the pandemic. Were these responses reasonable, effective and democratic? Or is the COVID-19 pandemic just the beginning of a new era of global democratic backsliding? How can liberal democracies manage similar crises in future? What lessons have we learned? The institutional knowledge gained turns out to be the key for the future of the rule of law.
Back to top

Keywords

  • Covid19
  • Democracy
  • Pandemic
  • Democratic Backsliding
  • Future Democracies
Back to top

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Kostas Chrysogonos, Anna Tsiftsoglou

Back to top

About the editors

Kostas Chrysogonos is Professor of Constitutional Law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Anna Tsiftsoglou is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Back to top

Bibliographic Information

Back to top
Access via your institution
eBook USD 119.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • ISBN: 978-3-031-13901-7
  • Instant PDF download
  • Readable on all devices
  • Own it forever
  • Exclusive offer for individuals only
  • Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout
Hardcover Book USD 159.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
Learn about institutional subscriptions