Download or read book The Case for Democracy in the COVID-19 Pandemic written by David Seedhouse and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Seedhouse highlights the alarming irrelevance of inclusive democracy in the governmental responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, asking why decision-makers so readily ignored centuries of hard-won civil freedoms? Why were we so easily controlled and why were our controllers so willing to do it? Before suggesting that this flawed governmental response is the perfect argument for an extensive, participatory democracy.