The COVID-2019 Pandemic as a Catalyst of the Potential Loss of Democratic Foundations of Society’s Social Life

Victoria Vadimovna  Perskaya; Valery Leonidovich  Аbramov; Victor Yakovlevich  Pishchik; Peter Viktorovich  Alekseev; Marina Borisovna  Medvedeva; Lyubov Igorevna  Khomyakova

doi:10.36941/ajis-2021-0171

Authors

Victoria Vadimovna Perskaya Professor, Dr.Sc. (Economics), Director, The Institute for Research of International Economic Relations, The Financial University, Moscow, Russia
Valery Leonidovich Аbramov Professor, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation,Moscow, Russia
Victor Yakovlevich Pishchik Professor, Dr. Sc. (Economics), Department of Global Finance, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia
Peter Viktorovich Alekseev Leading Researcher, Ph.D. (Economics), Institute of Global Economy and International Finance, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia
Marina Borisovna Medvedeva Professor, Department of Global Finance, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia
Lyubov Igorevna Khomyakova PhD, Lead Research Fellow, The Institute for Research of International Economic Relations, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36941/ajis-2021-0171

Keywords:

Pandemic, on-line work, self-isolation, systems of tracing and control, based on ICT, democratic rights and freedoms, polycentrism

Abstract

The pandemic-2020 has come quite unexpectedly despite the repeated warnings from WHO. It turned out that the infection’s spread in all countries of the world and the new-how to resist it depends on the ability to mobilize national system of health protection. So, on the quality of the provided medical service, on the accessibility to all levels of the society and on the ability of countries’ governments to provide with proper regulation of social life self-isolation, on-line work and quarantine regimes became the most effective tools in the world. It demanded the appropriate control mostly based on new technological solutions. Remote work and the possibilities of modern technologies to track and identify people may get elaboration after the end of the pandemic-2020. There is a great possibility to lose a part of democratic freedom of society due to using new systems of social life control in order to increase countries functioning effectiveness as the main units of a polycentric model of the world order. It is emphasized that polycentrism should lead neither to the totalitarianism of power nor to the loss of democratization of social life. The government should promote this process by increasing the effectiveness of its activity not substituting it for total control based on ICT.

Received: 15 July 2021 / Accepted: 12 October 2021 / Published: 5 November 2021