TY - BOOK AU - Anisin,Alexei TI - Authoritarian Liberal Surveillance and the COVID-19 Pandemic T2 - De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences , SN - 9783111081335 U1 - 320 PY - 2023///] CY - Berlin, Boston PB - De Gruyter KW - Autoritarismus KW - Liberale Demokratie KW - Pandemie KW - Populismus KW - Überwachung KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Health Care KW - bisacsh KW - Authoritarianism KW - Liberal Democracy KW - Pandemic KW - Populism KW - Surveillance N1 - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111345703 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783111345703 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783111345703/original ER -