The COVID-19 Pandemic and the State of Emergency: Lessons from Portugal

Violante T (2022)


Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes

Publication year: 2022

Publisher: Springer

Edited Volumes: Democracy after Covid. Challenges in Europe and Beyond

City/Town: Cham

Pages Range: 23-44

ISBN: 978-3-031-13900-0

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-13901-7_2

Abstract

The present chapter analyses the normative response of Portugal to the coronavirus crisis. As in other European Member States, the reaction to the pandemic was developed through a combination of enactment of the constitutional state of emergency with the statutory administrative emergency regime. Under both frameworks, there has been a strengthening of the executive at the expense of a parliamentary retreat. This chapter covers both responses to the pandemic and their shortcomings, mainly regarding the lack of democratic legitimation of the fight against the pandemic in face of a parliamentary circumvention and abdication.

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APA:

Violante, T. (2022). The COVID-19 Pandemic and the State of Emergency: Lessons from Portugal. In Kostas Chrysogonos, Anna Tsiftsoglou (Eds.), Democracy after Covid. Challenges in Europe and Beyond. (pp. 23-44). Cham: Springer.

MLA:

Violante, Teresa. "The COVID-19 Pandemic and the State of Emergency: Lessons from Portugal." Democracy after Covid. Challenges in Europe and Beyond. Ed. Kostas Chrysogonos, Anna Tsiftsoglou, Cham: Springer, 2022. 23-44.

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