Democracy After Covid: Challenges In Europe And Beyond

181 Pages·2022·3.085 MB·English

by  Kostas Chrysogonos, Anna Tsiftsoglou

Kostas Chrysogonos
Anna Tsiftsoglou   Editors
Democracy
after Covid
Challenges in Europe and Beyond
Democracy after Covid
(cid:129)
Kostas Chrysogonos Anna Tsiftsoglou
Editors
Democracy after Covid
Challenges in Europe and Beyond
Editors
KostasChrysogonos AnnaTsiftsoglou
FacultyofLaw FacultyofLaw
AristotleUniversityofThessaloniki AristotleUniversityofThessaloniki
Thessaloniki,Greece Thessaloniki,Greece
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To all the working people of the health sector
who have fought against the pandemic.
K. Chrysogonos
ToYannis, forbeingalwaysthere forme &to
all the scientists for their sacrifices to help
make this world a better place
A. Tsiftsoglou
Acknowledgments
Theideabehindcreatingavolumeondemocracyafterthepandemicwasborninlate
2020, as Greece was facing an enormous consecutive wave of cases and fatalities
causedbyCOVID-19.Sincethiswasbecomingaglobalissue,wedecidedtoreach
outtoaninternational audienceandselected colleagues frommajor liberaldemoc-
raciesinEuropeandUSAtocontribute.
Someofthecontributionsinthiscollectivevolumehavebeenpresented,inearlier
forms,attheInternationalSocietyofPublicLaw(ICON)AnnualConference,under
thetheme‘TheFutureofPublicLaw’,heldonlineinJuly2021,asacceptedpapers
ofa‘DemocracyafterCOVID-19’panelthatweformedtodiscussourpreliminary
ideas behind this book. That includes Chapters 2 (Violante, The COVID-19
Pandemic and the State of Emergency: Lessons from Portugal), 3 (Delledonne,
ExecutivesDuringtheCOVID-19Pandemic:ContradictoryTrends),7(Tsiftsoglou,
American Lessons: The COVID-19 Pandemic and the US Supreme Court) and
10 (Solanes Mullor, Protecting Political Rights during the COVID-19 Pandemic:
TheEmergenceofStrictJudicialScrutinyinSpain).Wewouldliketothankallthe
workshoppanelistsandparticipantsfortheirpresentationsandvaluablecomments,
aswellastheorganisersofthisconference.
We also thank all the book contributors for their stellar chapters. We could not
havemadethisbookhappenwithouttheirvaluableparticipation,researchcommit-
mentandcooperation.
Moreover, this book has benefitted from a Postdoctoral Excellence Scholarship
awarded to editor Anna Tsiftsoglou by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Research Committee for the academic year 2021–2022. This research funding is
gratefullyacknowledged.
Lastly,wethankoureditorLauraHofmannandtheSpringerLaweditorialteam
in Heidelberg, Germany for accepting this volume for publication in their interna-
tionallegalseriesandfortheirprofessionalcoordination.
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viii Acknowledgments
May this book give more food for thought for the future, even when the
COVID-19pandemichashopefullysubsidedworldwide.
Thessaloniki,Greece KostasChrysogonos
June2022 AnnaTsiftsoglou
Contents
PartI TheCOVID-19PandemicasaStateofException?
ThePandemicasanIdiosyncraticCaseofaStateofException. . . . . . . 3
KostasChrysogonosandPanagiotisViopoulos
TheCOVID-19PandemicandtheStateofEmergency:
LessonsfromPortugal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
TeresaViolante
PartII ExecutivesandParliamentsinaPandemic
ExecutivesDuringtheCOVID-19Pandemic:ContradictoryTrends. . . 47
GiacomoDelledonne
ParliamentarisminthePandemic:ContemporaryChallenges. . . . . . . . 61
HeikeMerten
COVID-19andtheFederalState. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
EkkehardHofmann
TheCOVID-19PandemicinCyprus:AProblematicLegalRegime,
andthePotentialofRuleofLawinEmergencies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
CostasStratilatis
PartIII BalancingandJudicialScrutinyinaPandemic
AmericanLessons:TheCOVID-19Pandemicand
theUSSupremeCourt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
AnnaTsiftsoglou
TheRuleofLawandFundamentalRightsintheCoronavirus
PandemicinGermany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
WolfgangKahlandKonstantina-AntigoniPoulou
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TheImpactofthePandemicontheGreekConstitution. . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
IoannisA.Tassopoulos
ProtectingPoliticalRightsDuringtheCOVID-19Pandemic:
TheEmergenceofStrictScrutinyinSpain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
JoanSolanesMullor
PartIV Conclusions:LiberalDemocracyAfterCOVID-19
Conclusions:LiberalDemocracyAfterCOVID-19:Challenges
inEuropeandBeyond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
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Contributors
Kostas Chrysogonos Faculty of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
Thessaloniki,Greece
Giacomo Delledonne Institute for Law, Politics and Development (Dirpolis),
ScuolaSuperioreSant’Anna,Pisa,Italy
EkkehardHofmann FacultyofLaw,UniversityofTrier,Trier,Germany
WolfgangKahl FacultyofLaw,Ruprecht-Karls-Universität,Heidelberg,Germany
InstituteforGermanandEuropeanAdministrativeLaw,Heidelberg,Germany
Heike Merten Party Research Institute, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf,
Düsseldorf,Germany
Konstantina-Antigoni Poulou Faculty of Law, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität,
Heidelberg,Germany
Joan Solanes Mullor Department of Law, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona,
Spain
CostasStratilatis SchoolofLaw,UniversityofNicosia,Nicosia,Cyprus
Ioannis A. Tassopoulos Department of Political Science and Public Administra-
tion,NationalandKapodistrianUniversityofAthens,Athens,Greece
Anna Tsiftsoglou Faculty of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
Thessaloniki,Greece
Teresa Violante Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen,
Germany
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law,
Heidelberg,Germany
Panagiotis Viopoulos Faculty of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
Thessaloniki,Greece
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