Thematic Papers
Electoral Processes: Navigating and Emerging from Crisis
During 2020–2021, the Covid-19 pandemic profoundly affected the conduct and integrity of elections worldwide. This paper notes a decline in clean elections and at the same time, there are important cases of electoral resilience displayed by democratic institutions and civil society.
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Emergency Law Responses and the Covid-19 Pandemic
This paper examines and compares different types of legal bases for emergency powers, built-in safeguards and constraints specific to each type of emergency regime, the factors that may influence choices about which emergency legal response to apply, and the associated advantages and risks.
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Democratic Institutions and Practices and the Impact on Covid-19 Outcomes
Despite the narratives of authoritarian states, the concerns of journalists and public intellectuals in democracies, and the results of some early studies, this paper shows that democracies fare no worse than authoritarian regimes in combating the Covid-19 pandemic.
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