All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 September Pandemic democracy 07/09/2020 | 4 MINS This article first appeared in The Interpreter, published by the Lowy Institute and written by Professor Benjamin Reilly. Voting is based on trust between citizens and their government. In an age of social distancing, such faith is tested. How will Covid-19 affect electoral democracy in Australia and around the world? The pandemic has starkly revealed two fundamental aspects of successful democracy: the extent of a given societyΓÇÖs trust between its citizens and their government, and the capacity of those same governments to deliver and enforce appropriate public health responses. Countries whose governments are both trusted and capable have seen them handle the virus relatively well, while those with neither trust nor capacity have seen it spread out of control. On this metric, Australia more resembles Asian democracies such as Taiwan and South Korea in our relatively high levels of social compliance than the more individualistic Anglophone societies with which we tend to feel comity. A
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 September Pandemic democracy 07/09/2020 | 4 MINS This article first appeared in The Interpreter, published by the Lowy Institute and written by Professor Benjamin Reilly.
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The pandemic has starkly revealed two fundamental aspects of successful democracy: the extent of a given societyΓÇÖs trust between its citizens and their government, and the capacity of those same governments to deliver and enforce appropriate public health responses.
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Countries whose governments are both trusted and capable have seen them handle the virus relatively well, while those with neither trust nor capacity have seen it spread out of control.
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On this metric, Australia more resembles Asian democracies such as Taiwan and South Korea in our relatively high levels of social compliance than the more individualistic Anglophone societies with which we tend to feel comity.
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