Shifting notions of democratic participation? How protests, pandemic, and populists alter our ideals of democratic involvement

Abstract

The principles of liberal democracy, democratic participation, and contentious politics have all been tested by the pandemic. Yet they have also been defended. In this section, we want to address some of the questions raised by these changes and challenges in relation to both pre-existing and emerging examples of participation and mobilization. How have the conditions for movements, social mobilizations, and political participation changed over the last year, and what reactions, innovations, new networks, or decline has resulted so far? How have liberal ideas of democracy and political discourse come under pressure? Have they been defended, or have other proposals been raised?

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