Calling in Sick: COVID-19, Pretext, and Subnational Democracy

• In Event: Facing COVID with Democratic Institutions

Brief Overview

We examine the use of public health as a pretext for undermining opposition parties, recentralizing political authority in dominant actors, and inhibiting the fair contestation of elections in Hong Kong, Hungary, the U.S., and South Africa.

Authors

• Matthew Stenberg, University of California-Berkeley

• Philip Rocco, Marquette University

• Safia Farole, Portland State University