Project description
A toolkit for legitimate crisis management
As the largest global crisis in generations, the COVID-19 pandemic put to the test our governance capacity and effective crisis management. In response to the pandemic, measures were taken by international, national and local governments. The EU-funded LEGITIMULT project will study the impact of these measures on democracy, the rule of law and citizen trust and engagement with their governments. It will review all measures taken by 31 European countries. The aim is to assess how these measures relate to multiple orders of governance from the international, to the national, regional and local level. The project’s findings will feed into a toolkit for legitimate crisis governance, ready for use in possible future crises.
Objective
LEGITIMULT assesses the impact of the measures taken by various international, national and subnational governments on multilevel institutions and intergovernmental relations in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. The project analyzes the effect of these measures on democratic governance, highlighting to what extent multilevel governance influences their impact on democracy, favoring a model of legitimate crisis management. It assesses all measures taken by 31 European countries in relation to their impact on multilevel governance through the creation of a new dataset highlighting how these procedures link to multiple orders of governance – WHO and EU above the states, and regional and local governments below the national level. The impact of these measures is analyzed through the lens of a variety of dimensions that characterize functional democratic governance (Rule of Law and Democratic Participation; Human and Minority Rights; Trust; Economic Sustainability). LEGITIMULT qualifies the different trade-offs required within and across these dimensions in order to effectively and quickly deal with a crisis such as Covid-19, while at the same time maintaining a level of democratic governance and ensuring that any limitations to democratic standards are limited. These final trade-offs within and between the different dimensions of democratic governance in crisis management are gathered in a set of policy recommendations, tailored to different recipients, and developed through extensive consultation with stakeholder groups throughout the project. Citizens, policy makers and practitioners are involved in the experimental phase of the project, where interactive learning and practical tools are tested but also co-designed and co-refined with relevant stakeholders in a participatory way. Policy recommendations and practical tools merge into a toolkit for legitimate crisis management, ready for use in possible future crises.
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- medical and health sciences health sciences public health epidemiology pandemics
- social sciences political sciences government systems democracy
- social sciences sociology governance crisis management
- social sciences law
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Programme(s)
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HORIZON.2.2 - Culture, creativity and inclusive society
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HORIZON.2.2.1 - Democracy and Governance
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL2-2021-DEMOCRACY-01
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39100 Bolzano
Italy
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