The COVID-19 Crisis in Romania: A Hypothesis around Penal Populism and Legal Culture

In this paper I seek to present a working hypothesis to be eventually developed in a future contribution, namely that the COVID-19 crisis exposed some problematic behaviours evocative of an authoritarian ethos on the part of both public authorities and citizens which suggest that a penal populist at...

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Autor principal:	Alexandra Mercescu
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Publicado:	Lodz University Press 2021
Materias:	covid-19 romania penal populism legal culture Law K Law in general. Comparative and uniform law. Jurisprudence K1-7720
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:d14a1f268f0c4294b58ca281709ea9ef2021-11-29T12:15:06ZThe COVID-19 Crisis in Romania: A Hypothesis around Penal Populism and Legal Culture0208-60692450-278210.18778/0208-6069.96.04https://doaj.org/article/d14a1f268f0c4294b58ca281709ea9ef2021-09-01T00:00:00Zhttps://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/Iuridica/article/view/11295https://doaj.org/toc/0208-6069https://doaj.org/toc/2450-2782In this paper I seek to present a working hypothesis to be eventually developed in a future contribution, namely that the COVID-19 crisis exposed some problematic behaviours evocative of an authoritarian ethos on the part of both public authorities and citizens which suggest that a penal populist attitude might now be part or even embedded in the Romanian legal culture. Specifically, I will organize this contribution as follows: in the first part, I will briefly describe Romania’s reaction (as evidenced both in the official measures taken and the attitude of citizens) to the first wave of the pandemic focusing on the role of penal and military means; I shall qualify this reaction as containing some traces of penal populism. In the second part I shall offer a tentative mapping of the factors that can explain this problematic cultural reaction. Importantly, among these I include the successful fight against corruption with the consequence that what appears to have very much consolidated the rule of law in post-1989 Romania could be shown to have had the unintended and paradoxical effect of undermining the very same ideal.Alexandra MercescuLodz University Pressarticlecovid-19romaniapenal populismlegal cultureLawKLaw in general. Comparative and uniform law. JurisprudenceK1-7720PLActa Universitatis Lodziensis Folia Iuridica, Vol 96, Pp 47-58 (2021)
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description	In this paper I seek to present a working hypothesis to be eventually developed in a future contribution, namely that the COVID-19 crisis exposed some problematic behaviours evocative of an authoritarian ethos on the part of both public authorities and citizens which suggest that a penal populist attitude might now be part or even embedded in the Romanian legal culture. Specifically, I will organize this contribution as follows: in the first part, I will briefly describe Romania’s reaction (as evidenced both in the official measures taken and the attitude of citizens) to the first wave of the pandemic focusing on the role of penal and military means; I shall qualify this reaction as containing some traces of penal populism. In the second part I shall offer a tentative mapping of the factors that can explain this problematic cultural reaction. Importantly, among these I include the successful fight against corruption with the consequence that what appears to have very much consolidated the rule of law in post-1989 Romania could be shown to have had the unintended and paradoxical effect of undermining the very same ideal.
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The COVID-19 Crisis in Romania: A Hypothesis around Penal Populism and Legal Culture

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