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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hobden, Christine
• Matisonn, Heidi

Titel

South Africa's Vaccine Roll-Out and Its Potential Costs to Our Social Contract

Ist Teil von

• Theoria (Pietermaritzburg), 2022-12, Vol.69 (4), p.64-85

Ort / Verlag

New York: Berghahn Books, Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

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Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Over the COVID-19 period, much attention has been paid to the governance relationship between citizens and the state. In this article, however, we focus on a feature that is less evident in the day-to-day living of the social contract: the relationship between citizens. Because this horizontal cohesion is critical to the social contract, we suggest that it should not be neglected, even amid a deepening crisis of state-citizen relations. Using the case of South Africa's vaccine roll-out as an illustration, we argue that certain kinds of state failures--failures in making complex fairness decisions, in treating citizens as equals when enacting these decisions, and in providing public justification for these decisions--risk dual damage to both citizen-state and citizen-citizen relations and so undermine an already fragile social contract.