Management of Civil Liberties During Pandemic
| DOI | 10.1177/00195561211035931 |
| Date | 01 September 2021 |
| Published date | 01 September 2021 |
| Author | Arunima,Tanushka Sharma |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
Management of Civil
Liberties During
Pandemic
Tanushka Sharma1 and Arunima2
Abstract
The degree of infection and consequent deaths have differed vastly, but Covid-19
pandemic has spared no country. The focus of this article is not to analyse India’s
success in responding to this global pandemic but rather to draw lessons from
this experience for effective public management in other fields of development.
There seems to be an emerging consensus that civil liberties and public manage-
ment matters. In a public health emergency, the primary responsibility of the gov-
ernment is to balance the foundation which paves way for equity, public welfare,
individual and group rights, and a smooth functioning of democratic processes.
Specific to the global crisis, the article focuses on how crucial it is to have a broad
and free dialogue about civil liberties. Several countries are imposing some or the
other form of problematic restrictions on civil liberties of an individual during the
Covid-19 pandemic, leading to changing societal scenarios in a negative manner.
Therefore, the article highlights the expertise of new public management and
deployment of enhanced role of society stakeholders defence of civil liberties,
especially in the area of social justice and misinformation.
Keywords
New public management, civil liberties, India, Covid-19, coronavirus pandemic,
government performance management
Introduction
The coronavirus disease in December 2020 caught most of the nations in a grap-
pling situation. A few months after the outbreak, many countries were desperately
searching for solutions to battle with it. Covid-19 prompted serious political,
Article
Indian Journal of Public
Administration
67(3) 440–451, 2021
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1 Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi, India.
2 K.R. Mangalam University, Gurugram, Haryana, India.
Corresponding author:
Tanushka Sharma, Research Officer, Indian Institute of Public Administration, Indraprastha Estate,
Ring Road, New Delhi 110002, India.
E-mail: tanushkasharma96@gmail.com
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