Contents:
Introduction : a new beginning / Miguel Poiares Maduro and Paul W. Kahn -- I. Power -- The crisis of democratic leadership in times of pandemic / Neil Walker -- Executive overreach and underreach in the pandemic / Kim Lane Scheppele and David Pozen -- From political accountability to criminal liability : the strange case of French penal populism / Olivier Beaud- -- Democracy and emergency in Latin America / Roberto Gargarella -- Apocalyptic Christianity, democracy, and the pandemic / Stanley Hauerwas -- II. Knowledge -- The reckoning : evaluating democratic leadership / Michael Ignatieff -- The irrelevance of the pandemic / Samuel Moyn -- Emergency, democracy, and public discourse / Moshe Halbertal -- Understanding, deciding, and learning : the key political challenges in times of pandemic / Daniel Innerarity -- III. Citizens -- COVID, Europe, and the self-asphyxiation of democracy / J.H.H. Weiler -- Corona as chance : overcoming the tyranny of self-interest / Susan Neiman -- Reimagined democracy in times of pandemic / Kalypso Nicolaidis -- Redefining vulnerability and state-society relationships during the COVID-19- crisis : the politics of social welfare funds in India and Italy / Deval Desai, Shalini Randeria, and Christine Lutringer -- Democracy and the obligations of care : a demos worthy of sacrifice / Paul W. Kahn.