Abstract
The COVID crisis has demonstrated how the divide between democracies and autocracies affects the lives of people in both types of societies, in critical ways. In this chapter, I focus on how authoritarian governments have responded to the pandemic politically, economically, and socially. Attending to the specific cases of China, Turkey, and Hungary, I examine how the state of emergency induced by the pandemic has served some authoritarian regimes, how their power over their populations has increased, and how they have found in COVID a political opportunity.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Pandemic Exposures |
| Subtitle of host publication | Economy and Society in the Time of Coronavirus |
| Editors | Didier Fassin, Marion Fourcade |
| Place of Publication | Chicago Distribution Center |
| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
| Chapter | 6 |
| Pages | 123 - 138 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-912808-82-3 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-912808-80-9 |
| Publication status | Published - 05 Jun 2022 |