Book contents
- Democracy in Times of Pandemic
- Democracy in Times of Pandemic
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction: A New Beginning
- Part I Power
- Part II Knowledge
- Part III Citizens
- 10 COVID, Europe, and the Self-Asphyxiation of Democracy
- 11 Corona as Chance: Overcoming the Tyranny of Self-Interest
- 12 Reimagined Democracy in Times of Pandemic
- 13 Redefining Vulnerability and State–Society Relationships during the COVID-19 Crisis: The Politics of Social Welfare Funds in India and Italy
- 14 Democracy and the Obligations of Care: A Demos Worthy of Sacrifice
14 - Democracy and the Obligations of Care: A Demos Worthy of Sacrifice
from Part III - Citizens
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
- Part III Citizens
- 10 COVID, Europe, and the Self-Asphyxiation of Democracy
- 11 Corona as Chance: Overcoming the Tyranny of Self-Interest
- 12 Reimagined Democracy in Times of Pandemic
- 13 Redefining Vulnerability and State–Society Relationships during the COVID-19 Crisis: The Politics of Social Welfare Funds in India and Italy
- 14 Democracy and the Obligations of Care: A Demos Worthy of Sacrifice
Summary
A pandemic arises when biology meets politics. The biology may be universal, but politics are local. Some nations suffer many thousands of deaths; some hundreds. Same virus; different politics. Economic development accounts for some of the differences, but even nations at the same level of development can have radically different pandemics. If politics is destiny, then our fate is in our hands.
The threat of the coronavirus to a community raises a political question: What is the nation prepared to do? In the United States and the United Kingdom, the initial answer was “very little.” Other places – for example, China, Israel, or South Korea – were prepared to do quite a lot. The statistics show the consequences.
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- Democracy in Times of PandemicDifferent Futures Imagined, pp. 196 - 208Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020