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Best in Covid: Populists in the Time of Pandemic
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Abstract How do populists govern in crisis? We address this question by analyzing the actions of technocratic populists in power during the first wave of the novel coronavirus crisis in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. We identify three features of the populist pandemic response. First, populists bypassed es... view more
How do populists govern in crisis? We address this question by analyzing the actions of technocratic populists in power during the first wave of the novel coronavirus crisis in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. We identify three features of the populist pandemic response. First, populists bypassed established, institutionalized channels of crisis response. Second, they engaged in erratic yet responsive policy making. These two features are ubiquitous to populism. The third feature, specific to technocratic populism, is the politicization of expertise in order to gain legitimacy. Technocratic populists in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia weaponized medical expertise for political purposes.... view less
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Free Keywords
ANO; Covid-19; Czech Republic; OL'aNO; Slovakia; health expertise; nationalism; pandemic; populism; technocratic populism
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
Page/Pages
p. 496-508
Journal
Politics and Governance, 8 (2020) 4
Issue topic
Varieties of Technocratic Populism around the World
ISSN
2183-2463
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed