Pandemic Power is a thought-provoking exploration of how the response to the Covid pandemic has undermined our understanding of science, freedom, and democracy. It delivers a searing critique of policies and narratives that have, in fact, fueled the rise of the extreme right in many countries.

Muriel Blaive, Ph.D., is a socio-political historian of postwar, communist, and post-communist Central Europe, in particular of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, with a specialization in oral history and everyday life history.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction - The Covid Response and the Erosion of Democracy
Chapter 1 - Laying the Groundwork for “Digital Authoritarianism”: Social Compliance and the Normalization of Fear
Chapter 2 - Collateral Damage, Censorship, and Hubris: The Practical Reality of the Lockdown
Chapter 3 - The Instrumentalization of Science and Expertise during Covid
Chapter 4 - A Reckoning about the Covid Measures Is Necessary and Urgent
Conclusion - Disquieting Echoes of History, or Covid and the Liberal Left
Postscript
Notes
Bibliography
Index