COVID-19: a dual challenge to European liberal democracy

Public Service and Liberal Democracy

The debate on television’s "public service"obligations can only make full sense if integrated in the broader context of the debate on the best political model for society. In fact, the classic "public service"rationale is based in a normative conception of good and in a suspicious view of the average citizen that is largely tributary of a Platonic or Elitist approach to the political organizati...

Subjective Measures of Liberal Democracy

Using democracy in empirical work requires accurate measurement. Yet, most policy and academic research presupposes the accuracy of available measures. This article explores judgespecific measurement errors in cross-national indicators of liberal democracy. The authors evaluate the magnitude of these errors in widely used measures of democracy and determine whether their results replicate durin...

Internet Voting: A Conceptual Challenge to Democracy

In this paper, we discuss the implications for social inclusion of the advent of Internet voting. Although the issue of social exclusion or social inclusion with regard to technological developments in the voting process is often approached as a matter of either security or turnout, we will take a broader view. Using the philosophical concept of technological mediation, as developed by Don Ihde...

Responding to Covid-19 — A Once-in-a-Century Pandemic?

SARS-CoV-2 is a highly transmissible respiratory virus causing COVID-19, a disease that has become pandemic. It is the biggest public health concern of this century. The sudden emergence of the novel SARS-CoV-2 has rapidly evolved into a pandemic that posed a serious threat to global health and economy Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, solving immediate problems and preventing problems are two ...

Promote COVID-19 vaccination uptake: a letter to editor