How does crisis affect the conflict between technocracy and populism? Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic

The article focuses on the relationship between technocracy and populism during first year of COVID-19 crisis. On one hand, this has been defined by populist denial, displacement crisis, rejection technocratic consensus need for urgent decisive action in face global pandemic. other also led to convergence two sides approximation more akin ‘technopopulist’ compromises politics. shows that pattern antagonism shaped three constitutive features state exception emergency crisis: (1) discursive securitization threat, (2) use extraordinary tools measures under licence precautionary principle, (3) institutional concentration power. While is an extreme case all respects, lessons learned from pandemic advance our general understanding as contemporary