Editorial Note
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.22151/politikon.45.0Keywords:
COVID-19, crisisAbstract
This Editorial Note contains a brief reflection on COVID-19 and Political Science, and a summary of the issue's content, featuring academic works on some of the most pertinent issues of our times: public health, elections, climate change, security, (in)equality and democracy: 'Volume 45 of IAPSS Politikon is launched during a historical turning point: the social, economic and political crisis originated by COVID-19. Political Science attests the crisis as a moment of institutional change in its broadest sense, but, unlike other phenomena, this change is not the result of actors’ intentionality [...]'.
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Merton, Robert K. 1968. Social Theory and Social Structure. New York: Free Press.