TY  - JOUR
TI  - Best in Covid: Populists in the Time of Pandemic
AU  - Buštíková, Lenka
AU  - Baboš, Pavol
PY  - 2020
PB  - Cogitatio
AB  - How do populists govern in crisis? We address this question by analyzing the actions of technocratic populists in power during the first wave of the novel coronavirus crisis in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. We identify three features of the populist pandemic response. First, populists bypassed established, institutionalized channels of crisis response. Second, they engaged in erratic yet responsive policy making. These two features are ubiquitous to populism. The third feature, specific to technocratic populism, is the politicization of expertise in order to gain legitimacy. Technocratic populists in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia weaponized medical expertise for political purposes.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v8i4.3424
DO  - 10.17645/pag.v8i4.3424
T2  - Politics and governance
VL  - 8
IS  - 4
SN  - 2183-2463
SP  - 496-508
UR  - https://www.pollux-fid.de/r/cr-10.17645/pag.v8i4.3424
H1  - Pollux (Fachinformationsdienst Politikwissenschaft)
ER  -