IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bla/glopol/v14y2023i1p149-156.html

COVID‐19 and democratic resilience

Author

Listed:
  • Richard Youngs

Abstract

The COVID‐19 experience has sharpened debates about democracy's future worldwide. In reflecting on these debates, this paper does three things. First, it assesses how resilient democracy has been in the COVID‐19 emergency. Second, it examines the effect the pandemic has had on the pre‐existing trends in democratic politics. And third, it suggests ways in which the COVID‐19 crisis both requires and possibly opens the door to democratic rejuvenation.

Suggested Citation

  • Richard Youngs, 2023. "COVID‐19 and democratic resilience," Global Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 14(1), pages 149-156, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:glopol:v:14:y:2023:i:1:p:149-156
    DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.13137
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13137
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1111/1758-5899.13137?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Merkel, Wolfgang & Lührmann, Anna, 2021. "Resilience of democracies: responses to illiberal and authoritarian challenges," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 28(5), pages 869-884.
    2. Chaudhry, Suparna, 2022. "The Assault on Civil Society: Explaining State Crackdown on NGOs," International Organization, Cambridge University Press, vol. 76(3), pages 549-590, March.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Kovanic, Martin & Steuer, Max, 2023. "Fighting against COVID-19: With or without politics?," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 337(C).

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Sunn Bush, Sarah & Cottiero, Christina & Prather, Lauren, 2024. "Zombies Ahead: Explaining the Rise of Low-Quality Election Monitoring," Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, Working Paper Series qt2fc2d3pr, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, University of California.
    2. Cupać, Jelena & Schopmans, Hendrik & Tuncer-Ebetürk, İrem, 2024. "Democratization in the age of artificial intelligence: introduction to the special issue," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 31(5), pages 899-921.
    3. Bimal Adhikari & Jeffrey King & Lie Philip Santoso, 2024. "The limits of shame: UN shaming, NGO repression, and women's protests," Conflict Management and Peace Science, Peace Science Society (International), vol. 41(3), pages 197-217, May.
    4. Sarah Sunn Bush & Christina Cottiero & Lauren Prather, 2025. "Zombies ahead: Explaining the rise of low-quality election monitoring," The Review of International Organizations, Springer, vol. 20(2), pages 261-291, June.
    5. Hellmeier, Sebastian, 2022. "Demokratische Resilienz: Auch für Gesellschaften ist die Pandemie ein Stresstest," WZB-Mitteilungen: Quartalsheft für Sozialforschung, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, issue 175 (1/22, pages 25-28.
    6. Rachel Beatty Riedl & Jennifer McCoy & Kenneth Roberts & Murat Somer, 2024. "Pathways of Democratic Backsliding, Resistance, and (Partial) Recoveries," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 712(1), pages 8-31, March.
    7. Heiss, Andrew & Chaudhry, Suparna, 2024. "Donor Responses to Civil Society Repression," SocArXiv 9gmhp, Center for Open Science.
    8. Merkel, Wolfgang, 2026. "What is democratic resilience?," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 33(3), pages 472-493.
    9. Corwin, Hillary, 2023. "Coercive and catalytic strategies for human rights promotion: State violence and foreign assistance," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 167(C).
    10. Maria S. Tysiachniouk & Juha Kotilainen, 2022. "Intentional Communities Finding Space Amid Geopolitical Turmoil: Belbek Valley Case Study," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(18), pages 1-28, September.
    11. repec:osf:socarx:9gmhp_v1 is not listed on IDEAS
    12. Boese-Schlosser, Vanessa A. & Meißner, Daniel & Ziblatt, Daniel, 2026. "Voters' orientations towards democracy: A new conceptual framework," Discussion Papers, Research Group Waves of Regime Transformation SP V 2026-701, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
    13. Bogdan Ștefanachi & Silviu Grecu, 2025. "Governance, Education, and Sustainable Development: A Comparative Analysis in Central and Eastern Europe," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 17(8), pages 1-28, April.
    14. Danielle Resnick & Shilpa Deshpande, 2023. "Illiberal democracy and nutrition advocacy," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 41(6), November.
    15. Paolo Moncagatta & Mateo Pazmiño, 2024. "A Tale of a Failed Recovery: Ecuador’s Democratic Stagnation," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 712(1), pages 137-151, March.
    16. Rachel J. Schoner, 2026. "Naming and shaming in UN treaty bodies: Individual petitions’ effect on human rights," The Review of International Organizations, Springer, vol. 21(1), pages 163-202, March.
    17. Fredrik von Malmborg, 2024. "Strategies and Impacts of Policy Entrepreneurs: Ideology, Democracy, and the Quest for a Just Transition to Climate Neutrality," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(12), pages 1-51, June.
    18. Ye, Meng & Heiss, Andrew, 2025. "The Implementation of China’s Overseas NGO Law and the Operating Space for International Civil Society," SocArXiv fzc9y_v1, Center for Open Science.
    19. Sam R Bell & Risa Kitagawa, 2025. "From participation to provision: How civil society secures procedural rights through peace negotiations," Conflict Management and Peace Science, Peace Science Society (International), vol. 42(3), pages 288-307, May.
    20. Schopmans, Hendrik & Tuncer Ebetürk, İrem, 2024. "Techno-authoritarian imaginaries and the politics of resistance against facial recognition technology in the US and European Union," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 31(5), pages 943-962.
    21. Henry Pascoe, 2026. "Foreign aid and transnational terrorism: The role of United Nations counterterrorism conventions," Conflict Management and Peace Science, Peace Science Society (International), vol. 43(2), pages 183-208, March.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bla:glopol:v:14:y:2023:i:1:p:149-156. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/lsepsuk.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.