Global Discourse Editor, Matthew Johnson interviews Professor Philip Pettit about the implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on government. They discuss the new special issue of Global Discourse on ‘COVID-19 and the Politics of Fear’, the three pillars of democracy and when government should act on public fears.
Read the Themed Issue, ‘COVID-19 and the Politics of Fear’: https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bup/gd/2021/00000011/00000003
Read Paul Faulkner’s original article, ‘Lockdown: a case study in how to lose trust and undermine compliance’: https://doi.org/10.1332/204378921X16106635782045
Read Philip Pettit’s reply to Faulkner, ‘Lockdown, breakdown and trust: a reply to Paul Faulkner’: https://doi.org/10.1332/204378921X16158526329286
Further reading
David Bartram: Review of Why Borders Matter: Why Humanity Must Relearn the Art of Drawing Boundaries by Frank Furedi
Peter Jones: The Pandemic, Freedom and Fear: A Reply to Moser
Leland Harper: Confronting COVID-19: Rational and Unique Fear in Black America
Ned Lebow: Fear, pathogens and political order
Claudia Leeb: The Fear of Covid: a Psychoanalytic Critical Theory Perspective
Noëlle McAfee: A reply to Castration Anxiety, COVID-19, and the Extremist Right by Claudia Leeb
Elias Moser: Nozick on Fear and the Covid-19 Lockdown Policy
Matthew Ratcliffe: A reply to Fernández Velasco, Perroy and Casati
Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg: A reply to Fernández Velasco, Perroy and Casati
Ruth Wodak: Crisis-Communication during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Politics of Fear and Hope
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