OPENING GOVERNMENTS IN TIMES OF LOCKDOWN LESSONS LEARNED FOR CITIZEN-ORIENTED ADMINISTRATIONS FROM THE COVID-19 CRISIS IN THE WESTERN BALKANS
OPENING GOVERNMENTS IN TIMES OF LOCKDOWN LESSONS LEARNED FOR CITIZEN-ORIENTED ADMINISTRATIONS FROM THE COVID-19 CRISIS IN THE WESTERN BALKANS

Author(s): Marko Sošić, Milena Lazarević
Subject(s): Governance, Public Administration
Published by: Centar za evropske politike CEP
Keywords: LOCKDOWN ; COVID-19 ; WESTERN BALKANS
Summary/Abstract: The ongoing coronavirus crisis has spurred a myriad of measures from governments in the Western Balkans to better inform their citizens andprovide services in emergency circumstances. Yet, responses to the pandemic and the institution of unprecedented lockdown measures haveintroduced various challenges to already fragile standards of transparency, accountability and rule of law, as well as have exposed shortcomingsin the functioning of public administrations, in the Western Balkans. The crisis is increasingly being used as an excuse to backslide on previouslyachieved progress. The way emergency measures were adopted and enforced, and how citizens were informed, require close scrutiny, so as toensure that the practices developed during this crisis do not become the "new normal".

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