Open AccessCovid-19: A Different Economic Crisis but the Same Paradigm of Democratic Deficit in the EU
Author(s) -
Dina Sebastião
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
politics and governance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.746
H-Index - 18
ISSN - 2183-2463
DOI - 10.17645/pag.v9i2.3923
Subject(s) - democratic deficit , politics , democracy , hegemony , ideology , political economy , political science , power (physics) , normative , covid-19 , economic system , development economics , economics , law , medicine , physics , disease , pathology , quantum mechanics , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Based on a normative orientation and an interdisciplinary perspective, this is a comparative study, using the process tracing methodology, between the EU responses to Eurozone and Covid-19 crises to assess if, despite different outcomes, institutional decision-making processes evidence a change. The study concluded that the EU democratic deficit remains, which assumes special features in economic crises, providing a political oversize power to the economically hegemonic states, thus constraining ideological debate and making national interest prevail over politicisation. This perpetuates the conversion of structural economic positions into political power at the expense of political representative power and democracy.