State of Emergency

Christian Bjørnskov is professor of economics at Aarhus University in Denmark, as well as affiliated researcher at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) in Stockholm, Sweden. He is the author of more than 100 articles in journals including the American Journal of Political Science and Public Choice.

"State of Emergency summarises and expands Christian Bj²rnskov's and Stefan Voigt's seminal research of constitutional emergency provisions: Why do emergency constitutions differ across countries, do they work as intended, and are there unintended political and social consequences of declaring a state of emergency?"--

1. Introduction; 2. The Architecture of Emergency Constitutions; 3. The Determinants of Emergency Constitutions; 4. Why Do Governments Call a State of Emergency? On the Determinants of Using Emergency Constitutions; 5. The Effectiveness of Emergency Constitutions After Natural Disasters; 6. When Does Terror induce a State of Emergency? And what are the Effects?; 7. States of Emergency After Domestic Turmoil; 8. Dealing with Disaster - Analyzing the emergency constitutions of the US states; 9. Keeping up the Balance between the Federation and the States; 10. Constitutionalized Media Freedom during Emergencies: Is it only Windowdressing?; 11. Unconstitutional States of Emergency; 12. The Corona Pandemic, States of Emergency, and Reliance on Executive Decrees; 13. Returning to the Status Quo Ante?; 14. Contracting for Catastrophe: Legitimizing Emergency Constitutions by Drawing on Social Contract Theory; 15. The Future of States of Emergency.