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Democracy and the Politics of Coronavirus: Trust, Blame and Understanding
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Flinders M
Parliam Aff
2020[Jun]; ? (?): ? PMIDC7337828
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This article explores the relationship between crises and democracy through a
focus on the unfolding coronavirus pandemic. Its central argument is that to
interpret the current pandemic purely in terms of its epidemiology and public
health implications risks overlooking its potentially more significant
socio-political consequences. This is because the challenges posed by the
coronavirus crisis have themselves become overlaid or layered-upon a pre-existing
set of concerns regarding the performance, efficiency and capacity of democratic
political structures. The aim of this article is to try and understand and warn
against what might be termed a rather odd form of cross-contamination whereby the
cynicism, negativity and frustration concerning politicians, political processes
and political institutions that existed before the coronavirus outbreak is
allowed to direct, define and automatically devalue how democratic structures are
subsequently judged in terms of how they responded to the challenge. As such,
this article focuses on the link between the Coronavirus crisis and the
democratic crisis; or, more precisely, the risk that the Coronavirus crisis may
mutate into and fuel a broader crisis of democracy.
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