Authoritarian Liberal Surveillance and the COVID-19 Pandemic / / Alexei Anisin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2024 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Anisin, Alexei,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences , 25
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (V, 133 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Chapter 1: Introduction --; Chapter 2: Is the World Becoming more Illiberal? --; Chapter 3: Theoretical Framework and Research Design --; Chapter 4: Waves of the Pandemic --; Chapter 5: The Impact of Pandemic Policies on Democracy Measures --; Chapter 6: Optimizing the Economy and Depoliticizing Publics --; Chapter 7: Conclusion --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783111345703; 9783111332192; 9783111319292; 9783111318912; 9783111319254; 9783111318677
• ISSN: 2747-5689
• DOI: 10.1515/9783111345703
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Alexei Anisin.

From QR codes to stay-at-home orders and mask mandates, the pandemic posed intriguing questions about the nature of political power in a time that is increasingly being classified as marked by democratic erosion, backsliding, or populism, Through a multi-methodological analysis of datasets covering different characteristics of pandemic responses in 54 liberal democratic states, Authoritarian Liberal Surveillance and the COVID-19 Pandemic draws attention to a different set of processes and dynamics. By adopting the theoretical frameworks of authoritarian liberalism and surveillance capitalism, a new explanation of political, economic, and social outcomes that arose over the course of the pandemic is provided in a critical cross-national inquiry. Findings turn attention to a previously neglected set of factors that were behind the emergence of widespread illiberal practices. Many liberal democracies experienced a metamorphosis that arose out of the unfettered implementation of authoritarian liberal economic policy making which merged with previously embedded structures of surveillance capitalism.