Includes bibliographical references and index.

The pandemic and the future of global democracy / Tom Gerald Daly -- COVID-19 vaccines and global governance : how structural factors dictate procurement and vitiate patient autonomy / Jerome Amir Singh -- Accountability through dialogue : New Zealand's experience during the COVID-19 Pandemic / Dean R Knight -- China and COVID-19 : an archetypal legal and governmental response to an exceptional challenge / Jacques deLisle and Shen Kui -- (Un)Governing : COVID-19 Response in the UK / Joelle Grogan -- COVID-19, the United States and evidence-based politics / Mark A Graber -- Democracy in the time of COVID-19 : pandemic management, public trust and democratic consolidation in Singapore / Shirin Chua and Jaclyn L Neo -- Human Rights - the essential frame of reference in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic / Alice Donald and Philip Leach -- Assessing human rights compliance during COVID-19 / Martin Scheinin -- Going beyond the rhetoric : taking human rights seriously in the post-COVID-19 world / Stéphanie Dagron -- Finland's success in combating COVID-19 : mastery, miracle or mirage? / Martin Scheinin -- A crisis of rights and democracy in India / Thulasi K Raj -- Dealing with the pandemic and social unrest : a stress test for Colombian institutions / Julián Gaviria-Mira and Esteban Hoyos-Ceballos -- Thailand's response to COVID-19 : human rights in decline and more social turbulence / Khemthong Tonsakulrungruang and Rawin Leelapatana -- Political opportunism and pandemic mismanagement in Kenya / Tara Imalingat, Nerima Were and Allan Maleche -- The rule of law as the perimeter of legitimacy for COVID-19 responses / Joelle Grogan and Julinda Beqiraj -- Baselining COVID-19 : how do we assess the success or failure of the response of governments to the pandemic? / Hans Petter Graver -- Brazil : COVID-19, illiberal politics and the rule of law / Thomas Bustamante and Emílio Peluso Neder Meyer -- Dealing with COVID-19 in Sweden : choosing a different path / Iain Cameron and Anna Jonsson Cornell -- Turkey : pandemic governance and executive aggrandisement / Başak Çalı and Emre Turkut -- The COVID-19 Pandemic : a pretext for expanding power in Hungary / Kriszta Kovács -- The politicisation of health and threats to the rule of law in Pakistan / Shaheera Syed and Nadia Tariq-Ali -- A stress test for politics : a comparative perspective on policy responses to COVID-19 / Sheila Jasanoff and Stephen Hilgartner -- Open science, data sharing and pandemic preparedness / Ciara Staunton -- Taiwan's effective pandemic control with dialogic constitutionalism / Wen-Cheng Chang and Chun-Yuan Lin -- Public health, technology and social context in Rwanda's COVID-19 response / Denis Bikesha and Allan T Moore -- Germany and COVID-19 : expertise and public political deliberation / Anna Katharina Mangold -- The rationality of South Africa's State of Disaster during COVID-19 / Melodie Labuschaigne and Ciara Staunton -- Iran's COVID-19 Response : who calls the shots? / Marzieh Tofighi Darian -- Responding to COVID-19 with States of Emergency : reflections and recommendations for future health crises / Cassandra V Emmons -- The COVID-19 emergency in Western European democracies : trends and issues / Arianna Vedaschi and Chiara Graziani -- Exposing inequalities : the experience of minorities and indigenous peoples during COVID-19 emergencies / Rasha Al Saba and Samrawit Gougsa -- When emergency is permanent : Egypt's legal response to COVID-19 / Ahmed Ellaboudy -- The COVID-19 emergency : Malaysia's fragile constitutional democracy / R Rueban Balasubramaniam -- The French management of COVID-19 : normalisation of regimes of exception and degradation of the rule of law / Marie-Laure Basilien-Gainche -- The Philippines under lockdown : executive dominance and an unclear pandemic response / Maria Ela L Atienza -- All bets on the executive(s)! The Australian response to COVID-19 / Marco Rizzi and Tamara Tulich -- Lessons for a 'post-pandemic' future / Joelle Grogan and Alice Donald.

"The COVID-19 pandemic not only ravaged human bodies but also had profound and possibly enduring effects on the health of political and legal systems, economies and societies. Almost overnight, governments imposed the severest restrictions in modern times on rights and freedoms, elections, parliaments and courts. Legal and political institutions struggled to adapt, creating a catalyst for democratic decline and catastrophic increases in poverty and inequality. This handbook analyses the global pandemic response through five themes: governance and democracy; human rights; the rule of law; science, public trust and decision making; and states of emergency and exception. Containing 12 thematic commentaries and 25 chapters on countries of diverse size, wealth and experience of COVID-19, it represents the combined effort of more than 50 contributors, including leading scholars and rising voices in the fields of constitutional, international, public health, human rights and comparative law, as well as political science, and science and technology studies. Taking stock after the onset of global emergency, this book provides essential analysis for politicians, policy-makers, jurists, civil society organisations, academics, students and practitioners at both national and international level on the best, and most concerning, practices adopted in response to COVID-19 - and key insights into how states and multilateral institutions should reform, adapt and prepare for future emergencies"--

English.