Pandemic challenges and models of democracy

Leszek Koczanowicz

doi:10.2478/ebce-2021-0014

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Pandemic challenges and models of democracy

Ethics & Bioethics

Volume 11 (2021): Issue 3-4 (December 2021)

By: Leszek Koczanowicz

Open Access

|Dec 2021

Abstract

This article examines the impact of a pandemic on democratic societies. The central research question is the extent to which a pandemic can alter the trajectory of social and ethical democratic development nationally and internationally. Therefore, the article examines contemporary controversies in democratic society in the aftermath of a pandemic. The leading hypothesis is that the pandemic should reinforce the need for social solidarity, but it is unclear what political form this need will take: populism or deliberative/nonconsensual democracy.

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