Коронакризата и дебатът за демокрацията
The Coronavirus Crisis and the Debate on Democracy

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses the question how the coronavirus crisis has influenced different aspects of the debate on democracy. In the beginning, those peculiarities of the crisis are outlined, that have an effect on decision making in governments and on the reception of governmental decisions by society. Next, an answer to the question is sought for, whether authoritarian regimes are more capable of dealing with thissort of crises than democratic. The paper then addresses the debate on how to overcome the health crisis, as well as the ethical basis of the diverging views in this debate. Here the balances between freedom and security, and freedom and equality in contemporary liberal democracies come into consideration together with the impulses to revise those balances as a result of the coronavirus crisis and the attempt to overcome its economic and social ramifications. The last section presents the problems that democracy has to face in relation to the expected slowdown or even reversal of globalization processes and the intensified regionalization coming up.

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