The Decline of Economic and Political Freedom After Covid-19: A New Authoritarian Dawn?

Politics and Governance, peer-reviewed journal indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science; Impact Factor: 2.2) and Scopus (CiteScore: 4.2), welcomes new and exciting research papers for its upcoming issue "The Decline of Economic and Political Freedom After Covid-19: A New Authoritarian Dawn?," edited by Christopher A. Hartwell (ZHAW School of Management and Law / Kozminski University).

This issue examines the decline in political and economic freedom since the global financial crisis and especially since the COVID-19 pandemic, exploring how authoritarian governance and economics have apparently come back into vogue. Authors are encouraged to submit papers dealing with the following themes:

Specific COVID-19 responses and how they have enabled authoritarianism;
Electoral reforms in democracies and their effects on freedom;
The failure of political elites to deal with crisis;
Populism and its left-wing policy prescriptions;
Economic policies in the post-global financial crisis world;
Trade protectionism and killing the goose that laid the golden egg.

To see further themes that you are encourage to work on please read the full call for papers: https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/pages/view/nextiss…

Abstracts welcome by 15 December 2023.