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02/24/2021 - 02/24/2021 | Hamburg

Stretching Boundaries: How Chief Executives Expand their Power

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how political leaders have used their powers to inforce limitation on civil liberties and political rights. The next GIGA Online event will bring together the GIGA Forum and GIGA Talk. Experts will discuss the personalisation of the executive power, its role in the Covid-19 pandemic and the noticeable rising trend especially in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.

As most crises do, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has proven to be the “hour of the executive.” Political leaders in democratic and authoritarian regimes across the world have imposed limits on civil liberties and political rights, often with very little involvement from legislatures and civil society. Although many of these measures conformed to expert recommendations on containing the disease, they also provided chief executives with a window of opportunity to bolster their own power.

However, this personalisation is hardly the sole result of the pandemic – rather, it is indicative of longer-term trends towards the erosion of constraints on the executive, which can be witnessed in democracies and autocracies all over the world. In China, President Xi Jinping managed to personalise political power after experiments with institutionalised leadership succession and collective rule. In Latin America, democratically elected leaders such as Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico and Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil had already attempted to personalise executive power before the pandemic hit. Similarly, in the Middle East personalisation of political power has been a long-acknowledged phenomenon.

This GIGA Forum/GIGA Talk assesses the evidence of a trend towards personalisation of executive power in Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, along with the role the COVID-19 pandemic has played therein.

Panelists:

Prof. Dr. Christian Göbel is a Professor of Sinology at the University of Vienna.

Dr. Mariana Llanos is a Lead Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute for Latin American Studies and Head of the GIGA’s Research Programme “Accountability and Participation.”

Dr. Thomas Richter is a Senior Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute for Middle East Studies.

Moderator:

Dr. Julia Grauvogel is a Senior Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute for African Affairs.

Information on participating / attending:
We would like to ask you to register for this event. The registration is free of charge.
Once you have successfully registered, you will receive a confirmation e-mail. If you do not receive this e-mail (make sure you check your spam folder), please contact us: events@giga-hamburg.de.

You will receive your personal participation link and further information by e-mail before the online event starts.

By registering, you agree to the GIGA's data protection guidelines. We will update our data protection notice as necessary. You can find the current version at: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/data-protection.

Date:

02/24/2021 16:00 - 02/24/2021 17:30

Event venue:

Online
Hamburg
Hamburg
Germany

Target group:

Scientists and scholars, all interested persons

Relevance:

international

Subject areas:

Politics, Social studies

Types of events:

Presentation / colloquium / lecture, Seminar / workshop / discussion

Entry:

02/09/2021

Sender/author:

Verena Schweiger

Department:

Fachabteilung Kommunikation

Event is free:

yes

Language of the text:

English

URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event67911


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