European Democracy after COVID-19

IF 0.8 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Democratic Theory-An Interdisciplinary Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI:10.3167/dt.2020.070219

U. Guérot, Michael Hunklinger

引用次数: 2

Abstract

In the past 70 years, situations that featured a lack of solidarity were always followed by the communitization of structures in the European Union. This contribution reflects on possible consequences of the COVID-19 crisis for the European Union. Even though the initial response from the EU looked unpromising and was driven at the nation-state level, the crisis may lead to new forms of solidarity through communitization. We argue that the EU needs equality for all EU citizens as well as institutionalized solidarity in order to finally become a real European democracy.

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新冠肺炎后的欧洲民主

在过去70年中，在缺乏团结的情况下，欧洲联盟的结构总是社区化。这一贡献反映了新冠肺炎危机对欧盟可能产生的后果。尽管欧盟最初的反应看起来没有希望，而且是在民族国家层面推动的，但这场危机可能会通过社区化带来新形式的团结。我们认为，欧盟需要所有欧盟公民的平等以及制度化的团结，才能最终成为一个真正的欧洲民主国家。

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Democratic Theory-An Interdisciplinary Journal POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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期刊介绍： Democratic Theory is a peer-reviewed journal published and distributed by Berghahn. It encourages philosophical and interdisciplinary contributions that critically explore democratic theory—in all its forms. Spanning a range of views, the journal offers a cross-disciplinary forum for diverse theoretical questions to be put forward and systematically examined. It advances non-Western as well as Western ideas and is actively based on the premise that there are many forms of democracies and many types of democrats. As a forum for debate, the journal challenges theorists to ask and answer the perennial questions that plague the field of democratization studies: Why is democracy so prominent in the world today? What is the meaning of democracy? Will democracy continue to expand? Are current forms of democracy sufficient to give voice to “the people” in an increasingly fragmented and divided world? Who leads in democracy? What types of non-Western democratic theories are there? Should democrats always defend democracy? Should democrats be fearful of de-democratization, post-democracies, and the rise of hybridized regimes?