State of emergency

A state of emergency is when a government is able to put through policies that it would normally not be able to do, for the safety and protection of its citizens. A government can declare a state of emergency during a natural disaster, violent protests, medical pandemic or epidemic or other biosecurity risk.^[1]

States of emergency can also be used as a reason for ending certain rights and freedoms given under a country's constitution or basic law, sometimes through martial law.^[2]

References

↑ Agamben, Giorgio (2005). State of Exception. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-00925-4.. Excerpt online: "A Brief History of the State of Exception".
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Hussein, Nassar (2003). The Jurisprudence of Emergency. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
- Rooney, Bryan. 2019. "E Emergency powers in democratic states: Introducing the Democratic Emergency Powers dataset." Research & Politics

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[1] Agamben, Giorgio (2005). State of Exception. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-00925-4.. Excerpt online: "A Brief History of the State of Exception".

[2] Hussein, Nassar (2003). The Jurisprudence of Emergency. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Rooney, Bryan. 2019. "E Emergency powers in democratic states: Introducing the Democratic Emergency Powers dataset." Research & Politics

[3] Rooney, Bryan. 2019. "E Emergency powers in democratic states: Introducing the Democratic Emergency Powers dataset." Research & Politics

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