Pandemocracy in Latin America: Revisiting the Political and Constitutional Dimension of the Pandemic

This book addresses two questions: firstly, how has the fight against COVID-19, especially the individual and collective responses of Latin American nation-states, influenced the relationship between power, people, and statebodies? And secondly, has democracy taken a step back and allowed pandemocracy to replace its long-term legitimising function?

Adopting a Global South perspective, the book explores the constitutional, political and institutional measures that paved the way for several ag...