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Neven Andjelic: Covid-19, State-Power and Society in Europe: Focus on Western Balkans by Ion Marandici is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
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In Covid-19, State-Power and Society in Europe: Focus on Western Balkans, Neven Andjelic uses quantitative measures to offer an impressive account of how state-society relations and democracy evolved across different regions of Europe. The author focuses on how countries reacted to the Covid-19 pandemic, thereby shaping various aspects of society and politics. In doing so, Andjelic embarks on an ambitious methodological journey. He unravels hitherto undertheorized aspects of democratic backsliding by combining 20 indices and constructing an original index to classify 45 countries into open, fairly open, opening, suppressed, and closed societies. As the author notes in the preface to the volume, such an approach may seem "unthinkable" and risky but-and here I concur with Andjelic-the exercise may be quite useful analytically as, so far, scholars of the Western Balkans have not compared antiliberal trends across Europe. Indeed, we know that everywhere the pandemic has been instrumentalized by various populist politicians, interested in undermining liberal democracy and maintaining their grip on power. As Andjelic observes, the public health crisis only "accelerated and strengthened t
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- Author
- Ion Marandici
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences