COVID-19 and erosion of democracy.
COVID-19
Democracy backsliding
Institutional economics
Law & economics
Pandemic
Political economy
Rule of law
Journal
Economic modelling
ISSN: 0264-9993
Titre abrégé: Econ Model
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101085827
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jan 2022
Jan 2022
Historique:
received:
01
03
2021
revised:
24
09
2021
accepted:
21
10
2021
entrez:
15
11
2021
pubmed:
16
11
2021
medline:
16
11
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The main research question of this study is about the drivers of democracy backsliding during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a special focus on the rule of law and the state of democracy just before the shock. There is growing interest in the political implications of the coronavirus pandemic, debating mostly the misuse of emergencies and violations of various norms by governments; however the links between the current democracy erosion with institutional environment remain unclear. We use a novel global dataset covering the period of the first two waves of the pandemic (January-December 2020), and apply various econometric and machine learning tools to identify institutional, economic and social factors influencing democracy. Our results are of scientific and practical importance and imply that the stronger the rule of law and the higher the level of democracy, the lower the risk of democracy backsliding in the face of the pandemic.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34776576
doi: 10.1016/j.econmod.2021.105682
pii: S0264-9993(21)00271-6
pmc: PMC8571542
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
105682Informations de copyright
© 2021 The Author(s).
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
We do not report any conflict of interest.
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