Democracy and Corona (Covid-19) Discussion on Current Trends

Abstract

In several newly independent states the practice of liberal democracy met with numerous
quandaries causing its complete decay. However, following the end of cold war democratic
wave swelled in different parts of the world and good-governance and democracy turned out to
be congruent. Subsequently, discrepancy stemmed between procedural and functional facets of
democracy generating divergent types of autocratization and constraining democratic space amid
absence of accountability in a number of countries. Within this setting at the end of 2019 took place
Covid-19 that steadily submerged the entire world rendering its multifarious distressing outcome.
The pandemic at the same time influenced the sphere of democratic modes of governance. The
structures correlated with democracy hence are adversely affected along with their corresponding
roles in the political order. The present article poses an overview of such issues triggered by the
on-going pandemic.