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- Democracy in Times of Pandemic
- Democracy in Times of Pandemic
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction: A New Beginning
- Part I Power
- 1 The Crisis of Democratic Leadership in Times of Pandemic
- 2 Executive Overreach and Underreach in the Pandemic
- 3 From Political Accountability to Criminal Liability: The Strange Case of French Penal Populism
- 4 Democracy and Emergency in Latin America
- 5 Apocalyptic Christianity, Democracy, and the Pandemic
- Part II Knowledge
- Part III Citizens
4 - Democracy and Emergency in Latin America
from Part I - Power
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 November 2020
- Democracy in Times of Pandemic
- Democracy in Times of Pandemic
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction: A New Beginning
- Part I Power
- 1 The Crisis of Democratic Leadership in Times of Pandemic
- 2 Executive Overreach and Underreach in the Pandemic
- 3 From Political Accountability to Criminal Liability: The Strange Case of French Penal Populism
- 4 Democracy and Emergency in Latin America
- 5 Apocalyptic Christianity, Democracy, and the Pandemic
- Part II Knowledge
- Part III Citizens
Summary
In this chapter, I will present some reflections on the ways in which Latin American democracies have reacted to the COVID-19 crisis. I shall focus my analysis on some of the controversial institutional choices adopted during the emergency, and particularly on those choices that affect the bases of our constitutional democracies. I shall discuss the use of emergency powers; the decision to declare the “state of siege”; the value of democratic deliberation; the prevailing understanding of the principle of separation of powers; the problem of “democratic erosion”; and the threats posed by a growing economic crisis, which the COVID-19 emergency has seriously aggravated.
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- Democracy in Times of PandemicDifferent Futures Imagined, pp. 66 - 76Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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