Blog Symposium on Power, Policy and Pandemics

By David Mednicoff (external contributor) In the context of what Larry Diamond has called a global 'democratic recession,' can the rule of law push back on powers that leaders

By Timothy Fish Hodgson and Melanie Jean Murcott (external contributors) More than two years into the Covid-19 pandemic, we have grown accustomed to a new lexicon: from social distancing to

By Joelle Grogan (external contributor) The Covid-19 pandemic caused a severe strain on health systems globally, while simultaneously presenting a social, economic, legal, political, and regulatory challenge. Decisions about how

By Carmen E Pavel (external contributor) In a state of emergency, it is easy to believe that there are no limits to what governments must do to respond.  During the

By Thomas Schramme (external contributor) The fact that health is a form of wealth has perhaps never been as obvious as it is today. Increasingly, human health is being perceived

By Eric Winsberg (external contributor) It is a home truth in philosophy of science that models are not, in the first instance, evaluated for their truth or accuracy, but for

The Covid-19 pandemic has posed significant challenges to parliaments around the world (Bar-Siman-Tov 2020). Parliaments have faced both political and operational challenges. The former has seen a sharp increase in

By Erik Angner (external contributor) 'You can’t derive an "ought" from an "is",' said David Hume, the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher. If you want to know what ought to

By Emily Barritt and Carmen Pavel (external contributors) People bolted shut in their apartment buildings in China for weeks on end; workers beaten by the police in the streets of