Krisens två ansikten – lockdown och förnekelse: en komparativ demokratianalys av Argentina och Brasilien under Covid-19-pandemin
This thesis examines how the presidential leadership during the Covid-19 pandemic affected the democracies in Argentina and Brazil between 2020 and 2023. Using a comparative case study and process tracing methodology, we analyse the contrasting strategies of Presidents Alberto Fernández and Jair Bolsonaro. Drawing on Robert Dahl’s democratic criteria and Hélène Landemore’s theory of epistemic demo