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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
- Part II Knowledge
- 6 The Reckoning: Evaluating Democratic Leadership
- 7 The Irrelevance of the Pandemic
- 8 Emergency, Democracy, and Public Discourse
- 9 Understanding, Deciding, and Learning: The Key Political Challenges in Times of Pandemic
- Part III Citizens
9 - Understanding, Deciding, and Learning: The Key Political Challenges in Times of Pandemic
from Part II - Knowledge
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
- Part II Knowledge
- 6 The Reckoning: Evaluating Democratic Leadership
- 7 The Irrelevance of the Pandemic
- 8 Emergency, Democracy, and Public Discourse
- 9 Understanding, Deciding, and Learning: The Key Political Challenges in Times of Pandemic
- Part III Citizens
Summary
The main democratic challenges raised by the COVID-19 crisis can be divided into three groups, according to a time sequence: There are challenges raised before, during, and after the crisis. These different moments in time correspond to questions of understanding, deciding, and learning. The first set of questions concern whether or not we were prepared for a crisis on this scale, and whether we have been able to understand it correctly. At the heart of the crisis, what was in play was our ability to decide and to do so without damaging the values of justice and democracy. After the crisis, the most significant question is what needs to be learned, by whom, and in what way.
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- Democracy in Times of PandemicDifferent Futures Imagined, pp. 122 - 136Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020