Pandemocracy in the Anglosphere

Democracy's Power to Meet Tomorrow's Polycrisis
Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-1-5099-8582-1
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing plc

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 561 g

Reihe: Hart Publishing

This book explores how COVID-19 represents an inflection point for re-thinking and re-making democracy across the English-speaking world in an age where states are facing a future of overlapping crises.

Years after the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic started to unfold, have we yet learned the deep lessons essential to maintaining and improving democracy to meet crisis challenges?

Produced with the benefit of distance from the most acute period of the pandemic, the book contextualises the COVID-19 crisis as revealing pre-existing vulnerabilities and intensifying challenges of governance, inclusion, and distrust, while also spurring democratic innovation and shifting the parameters for reform.

Six national case studies - Australia, Ireland, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand, UK and USA - reveal the heterogeneity of the Anglosphere as an imagined democratic space. Viewed in the round, pandemic responses ranged from the chaotic to the internationally lauded, although even the latter have featured acute deficiencies in democratic practice, which underscores the need to gather the lessons learned. Yet, in all states, the public and political temptation to simply move on, in an act of communal forgetting and collective return to "normalcy," presents a real risk of failing to prepare for more democratic future crisis responses.

This collection takes the long view, approaching its subject from multiple perspectives that examine the heterogeneity of the Anglosphere as an imagined democratic space. Taking a cross-disciplinary approach and bringing together both leading and emerging experts on democracy, constitutionalism, and the rule of law, this book powerfully combines the insights of retrospective analysis with future-focused contemplation of where our democracies are heading.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Daly, Tom Gerald

Hafetz, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Reconceptualising Democracy, Power and Polycrisis in the Anglosphere, Tom Daly (Melbourne University, Australia) and Jonathan Hafetz (Seton Hall University, USA)

Part One: Theory - Pandemocracy from Different Starting Points
1. The Anglosphere as a Scattered (and Tattered) Democratic Space, Aziz Z Huq (University of Chicago Law School, USA)
2. The State as a Source of Anxiety or Solace, TBC
3. Political Leadership and Popular Control, Dean R Knight (University of Wellington, New Zealand)

Part Two: Practice - Institutional Performance and Public Pressure
4. Old Constitutions, New Challenges, TBC
5. The 'Ideal' Emergency and the 'Ideal' Normal, Alan Greene (Birmingham Law School, UK)
6. A Pandemic, a Protest, and a Public Order Emergency: Examining Canada's Democratic Vulnerabilities Post COVID-19, Vanessa MacDonnell (University of Ottawa, Canada)
7. Transcending the Borders of Pandemic Jurisprudence, Eric Adams (University of Alberta, Canada)

Part Three: Scale - Multi-Level Democracy
8. Floods, Fire, and Pandemics: Federalism and Multi-level Democracy during Crisis in the Australian Context, Danielle Ireland-Piper (Australian National University, Australia)
9. Small States and Crisis Democracy, TBC
10. Cities as Sites of Democracy, Solidarity and Resistance, TBC

Part Four: Perspective - First Nations and Minority Insights
11. Indigenous Perspectives on Crisis Governance in Settler States, TBC
12. Crisis Control and Inequality, TBC
13. Crisis, the Imperial State and the Post-Colonial State, TBC

Part Five: Renewal - Democratic Innovation and Future Crises
14. Re-Engineering Inclusive Elections in the Anglosphere, TBC
15. Delegated Powers and Democratic Dilemmas: Lessons from the Australian Government's COVID-19 Response, Lorne Neudorf, (Australian National University, Australia)
16. Re-locating the Citizen as Subject and Actor in Crisis Responses, Seána Glennon (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Part Six: Conclusions
17. Contesting the Anglosphere: Perspectives from the Wider Anglosphere, Mark Rush (Washington and Lee University, USA)
18. Pandemic Lessons for Meeting Polycrisis Democratically: Climate Crisis and Migration, Joo-Cheong Tham (Melbourne Law School, Australia)

Über Autor(innen)

Hafetz, Jonathan
Jonathan Hafetz is Professor of Law at Seton Hall University, USA.

Daly, Tom Gerald
Tom Gerald Daly is Professor of Law at Melbourne University, Australia.

Tom Gerald Daly is Professor of Law at Melbourne University, Australia.
Jonathan Hafetz is Professor of Law at Seton Hall University, USA.