*The Decline of Economic and Political Freedom After Covid-19: A New Authoritarian Dawn?* Edited by ** Christopher A. Hartwell /Deadline for Abstracts: 15 December 2023 /| /Deadline for Articles: 30 April 2024/ Politics and Governance, peer-reviewed journal indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science; Impact Factor: 2.2) and Scopus (CiteScore: 4.2), welcomes new and exciting research papers for its upcoming issue "The Decline of Economic and Political Freedom After Covid-19: A New Authoritarian Dawn?," edited by Christopher A. Hartwell (ZHAW School of Management and Law / Kozminski University). This issue examines the decline in political and economic freedom since the global financial crisis and especially since the COVID-19 pandemic, exploring how authoritarian governance and economics have apparently come back into vogue. Authors are encouraged to submit papers dealing with the following themes: * Specific COVID-19 responses and how they have enabled authoritarianism; * Electoral reforms in democracies and their effects on freedom; * The failure of political elites to deal with crisis; * Populism and its left-wing policy prescriptions; * Economic policies in the post-global financial crisis world; * Trade protectionism and killing the goose that laid the golden egg. To see further themes that you are encourage to work on please read the full call for papers: https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/pages/view/nextissues#AuthoritarianDawn Abstracts welcome by 15 December 2023. Kindest regards, Carolina Carolina Correia Politics and Governance Cogitatio Press 1070-129 Lisbon Portugal New issues (open access): Vol 11, No 3 (2023): Publics in Global Politics https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/issue/view/361 Vol 11, No 3 (2023): United in Uniqueness? Lessons From Canadian Politics for European Union Studies https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/issue/view/360