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<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has dominated media and scholarly literature since 2020. The impact(s) of crisis management on democracy, legitimacy, human rights, minorities, marginalized groups, and persons belonging to them are mentioned but seldom the main focus. From the perspective of human rights, protection of minorities, and the principle of non-discrimination in multilevel systems in Europe, the paper discusses certain conceptual, terminological, and methodological problems in studying such complex dynamic phenomena and argues that qualitative approaches might be the most suitable for studying the perceptions of persons belonging to diverse minorities on democracy and the legitimacy of crisis management and governance.</p>
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The COVID-19 pandemic has dominated media and scholarly literature since 2020. The impact(s) of crisis management on democracy, legitimacy, human rights, minorities, marginalized groups, and persons belonging to them are mentioned but seldom the main focus. From the perspective of human rights, protection of minorities, and the principle of non-discrimination in multilevel systems in Europe, the paper discusses certain conceptual, terminological, and methodological problems in studying such complex dynamic phenomena and argues that qualitative approaches might be the most suitable for studying the perceptions of persons belonging to diverse minorities on democracy and the legitimacy of crisis management and governance.

Legitimate Multilevel Crisis Management from the Perspective of Human Rights, Minorities, and Non-Discrimination

Treatises and Documents, Journal of Ethnic Studies / Razprave in Gradivo, Revija za narodnostna vprašanja

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Legitimnost večnivojskega kriznega upravljanja z vidika človekovih pravic, manjšin in nediskriminacije

The COVID-19 pandemic has dominated media and scholarly literature since 2020. The impact(s) of crisis management on democracy, legitimacy, human rights,...

Legitimate Multilevel Crisis Management from the Perspective of Human Rights, Minorities, and Non-Discrimination

Published Online: Dec 21, 2023

Page range: 15 - 24

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/tdjes-2023-0012

Keywords
crisis management, inclusion, multilevel governance, social minorities and persons belonging to them, human and minority rights, non-discrimination, LEGITIMULT project

© 2023 Mitja Žagar, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Legitimate Multilevel Crisis Management from the Perspective of Human Rights, Minorities, and Non-Discrimination

Published Online: Dec 21, 2023

Page range: 15 - 24

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/tdjes-2023-0012

Keywordscrisis management, inclusion, multilevel governance, social minorities and persons belonging to them, human and minority rights, non-discrimination, LEGITIMULT project

© 2023 Mitja Žagar, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
crisis management, inclusion, multilevel governance, social minorities and persons belonging to them, human and minority rights, non-discrimination, LEGITIMULT project