COVID-19 in Sweden: A Soft Power Approach Cameron, Iain Author aut Jonsson-Cornell, Anna Author aut Text xx# 2021 Verfassungsblog 2021-02-24 ger
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 The Swedish political and legal response to the Covid-19 pandemic is best described as soft in terms of the character of the measures applied, and decentralized in terms of the division of powers and responsibilities. Swedish constitutional law does not provide for a state of emergency in a peace time crisis, such as a pandemic. Instead, the principle of statutory anticipation is used, which means that ordinary laws (with, in some cases, special provisions which can be activated) apply also in a time of crisis, e.g. the Public Order Act (POA), which allows the government to restrict the number of participants in public meetings or organized public events. Where these powers are deemed to be insufficient, the legislative procedure should be sufficiently flexible to allow new powers to be added relatively speedily. However, the events in 2020 showed that this approach suffers from several deficiencies. CC BY-SA 4.0 Cameron, Iain COVID 19 Sweden 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/covid-19-in-sweden-a-soft-power-approach/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20210224-154142-0 210224 10.17176/20210224-154142-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)