The cases of COVID‐19 and climate change highlight the central role of scientific research
which supposedly guides political decision‐making. Models and scenarios assume a central …

The pandemic has brought about a shift in the way people perform contactless payments
using mobile apps, with QR codes becoming increasingly popular as customers can pay for …

Background Compulsory treatments represent a legal means of imposing treatment on an
individual, usually with a mental illness, who refuses therapeutic intervention and poses a …

Doubtless, the COVID-19 pandemic has been extremely challenging in all aspects.
However, rather than looking at COVID-19 exclusively as a catastrophic event, which has …

This paper seeks to investigate and assess a particular form of relationship between the
State and its citizens in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, namely that of obedience to …

Current debates about experts are often polarized and based on mistaken assumptions, with
expertise either defended or denigrated. Making Sense of Expertise instead proposes a …

Quality deliberation is essential for societies to address the challenges presented by the
coronavirus pandemic effectively and legitimately. Critics of deliberative and participatory …

This article examines the multifaceted nature of freedom in relation to the world's efforts to
cope with the Covid-19 pandemic. The aim is to show that in democratic societies …

The coronavirus pandemic has revived scholarly engagement with the concept of biopolitics,
with interpretations diagnosing either the widespread adoption of a classic biopolitical …

This paper inquires how surveillance manifests in least‐ideal contexts (LICs), that is,
countries with resource constraints, poor governance and proclivity for populism during …