http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20200515-133624-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/democracy-and-the-global-emergency-shared-experiences-starkly-uneven-impacts/ Democracy and the Global Emergency – Shared Experiences, Starkly Uneven Impacts Daly, Tom Gerald eng 2020-05-15 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Coronavirus COVID 19 democracy Emergency Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Curating analysis of these developments since early April through the COVID-DEM project, and reading across the 62 published contributions to this outstanding symposium, there are clear commonalities across all democracies affected. Beyond these commonalities, the effect of the COVID-19 response on the democratic system has been – and will be – starkly uneven across democracies worldwide, due to the different democratic ‘starting point’ of each state as the pandemic hit.