Full Description
The COVID-19 pandemic not only ravaged human bodies but also had profound and possibly enduring effects on the health of political and legal systems, economies and societies. Almost overnight, governments imposed the severest restrictions in modern times on rights and freedoms, elections, parliaments and courts. Legal and political institutions struggled to adapt, creating a catalyst for democratic decline and catastrophic increases in poverty and inequality. This handbook analyses the global pandemic response through five themes: governance and democracy; human rights; the rule of law; science, public trust and decision making; and states of emergency and exception. Containing 12 thematic commentaries and 25 chapters on countries of diverse size, wealth and experience of COVID-19, it represents the combined effort of more than 50 contributors, including leading scholars and rising voices in the fields of constitutional, international, public health, human rights and comparative law, as well as political science, and science and technology studies. Taking stock after the onset of global emergency, this book provides essential analysis for politicians, policy-makers, jurists, civil society organisations, academics, students and practitioners at both national and international level on the best, and most concerning, practices adopted in response to COVID-19 - and key insights into how states and multilateral institutions should reform, adapt and prepare for future emergencies.
Contents
PART I: Governance and Democracy 1 The Pandemic and the Future of Global Democracy 2 COVID-19 Vaccines and Global Governance: How Structural Factors Dictate Procurement and Vitiate Patient Autonomy 3 Accountability through Dialogue: New Zealand's Experience during the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic 4 China and COVID-19: An Archetypal Legal and Governmental Response to an Exceptional Challenge 5 (Un)Governing: The COVID-19 Response in the UK 6 COVID-19, the United States and Evidence-Based Politics 7 Democracy in the Time of COVID-19: Pandemic Management, Public Trust and Democratic Consolidation in Singapore PART II: Human Rights 8 Human Rights - the Essential Frame of Reference in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic 9 Assessing Human Rights Compliance during COVID-19 10 Going Beyond the Rhetoric: Taking Human Rights Seriously in the Post-COVID-19 World 11 Finland's Success in Combatting COVID-19: Mastery, Miracle or Mirage? 12 A Crisis of Rights and Democracy in India 13 Dealing with the Pandemic and Social Unrest: A Stress Test for Colombian Institutions 14 Thailand's Response to COVID-19: Human Rights in Decline and More Social Turbulence 15 Political Opportunism and Pandemic Mismanagement in Kenya PART III: The Rule of Law 16 The Rule of Law as the Perimeter of Legitimacy for COVID-19 Responses 17 Baselining COVID-19: How Do We Assess the Success or Failure of the Responses of Governments to the Pandemic? 18 Brazil: COVID-19, Illiberal Politics and the Rule of Law 19 Dealing with COVID-19 in Sweden: Choosing a Different Path 20 Turkey: Pandemic Governance and Executive Aggrandisement 21 The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Pretext for Expanding Power in Hungary 22 The Politicisation of Health and Threats to the Rule of Law in Pakistan Part IV: Science, Public Trust and Decision-Making 23 A Stress Test for Politics: A Comparative Perspective on Policy Responses to COVID-19 24 Open Science, Data Sharing and Pandemic Preparedness 25 Taiwan's Effective Pandemic Control with Dialogic Constitutionalism 26 Public Health, Technology and Social Context in Rwanda's COVID-19 Response 27 Germany and COVID-19: Expertise and Public Political Deliberation 28 The Rationality of South Africa's State of Disaster During COVID-19 29 Iran's COVID-19 Response: Who Calls the Shots? Part V States of Emergency and Exception 30 Responding to COVID-19 with States of Emergency: Reflections and Recommendations for Future Health Crises 31 COVID-19 and Emergency Powers in Western European Democracies: Trends and Issues 32 Exposing Inequalities: The Experience of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples During COVID-19 Emergencies 33 When Emergency Is Permanent: Egypt's Legal Response to COVID-19 34 The COVID-19 Emergency: Malaysia's Fragile Constitutional Democracy 35 The French Management of COVID-19: Normalisation of Regimes of Exception and Degradation of the Rule of Law 36 The Philippines under Lockdown: Continuing Executive Dominance and an Unclear Pandemic Response 37 All Bets on the Executive(s)! The Australian Response to COVID-19 BEYOND THE PANDEMIC 38 Lessons for a 'Post-Pandemic' Future Index
