Open AccessPandemic challenges and models of democracy
Author(s) -
Leszek Koczanowicz
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
ethics and bioethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2453-7829
pISSN - 1338-5615
DOI - 10.2478/ebce-2021-0014
Subject(s) - democracy , solidarity , pandemic , populism , politics , political science , political economy , covid-19 , social solidarity , development economics , sociology , public administration , social science , law , economics , medicine , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pathology
This article examines the impact of a pandemic on democratic societies. The central research question is the extent to which a pandemic can alter the trajectory of social and ethical democratic development nationally and internationally. Therefore, the article examines contemporary controversies in democratic society in the aftermath of a pandemic. The leading hypothesis is that the pandemic should reinforce the need for social solidarity, but it is unclear what political form this need will take: populism or deliberative/nonconsensual democracy.