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<p>Despite concerns about self-aggrandizing presidents, the crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic did not accelerate democratic backsliding in Latin America, nor did it initiate it. The pandemic led countries to use emergency-type powers in response, but using a variety of indices from the Varieties of Democracy project, including one dedicated to the pandemic, we show that the level of democracy generally, and horizontal accountability in particular, has not suffered in the post-COVID period. In some cases, democracy continued a decline after the pandemic, but all of these trends started earlier, thus suggesting that the pandemic was not a significant contributor to the decline. These results challenge expectations that link emergencies with augmented presidential power and democratic backsliding. </p>

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Emergency without backsliding

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    2026年1月9日

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  • Scott Morgenstern,
  • Akira Pinto-Medeiros

摘要

Despite concerns about self-aggrandizing presidents, the crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic did not accelerate democratic backsliding in Latin America, nor did it initiate it. The pandemic led countries to use emergency-type powers in response, but using a variety of indices from the Varieties of Democracy project, including one dedicated to the pandemic, we show that the level of democracy generally, and horizontal accountability in particular, has not suffered in the post-COVID period. In some cases, democracy continued a decline after the pandemic, but all of these trends started earlier, thus suggesting that the pandemic was not a significant contributor to the decline. These results challenge expectations that link emergencies with augmented presidential power and democratic backsliding.