ranjan

Democracy, understood as electoral democracy based on representation, was not at its strongest when the Covid-19 pandemic hit. It is widely held that during crisis people "rally round the flag", that is, elected leaders gain more popular support than they had under normal circumstances. Two explanations offered for this situation are - people gather around the nation's front figures as they look for security to face the threat. Second, the relative silence of political opposition and reduced partisan animosity creates a fundamental change in the information landscape, leading the public to follow the example. The year 2020 will forever be the year of Coronavirus, a cataclysmic event in slow motion that has disrupted people's lives and disseminated a sense of uncertainty and vulnerability only to times of war. The Covid -19 pandemic has called into question many aspects of electoral and political life beyond the act of voting. Campaigns and conventions have been forced