Associate Professor of Democratic Theory @IPS_FSV_CUNI | 2018/2019 Democracy Visiting Fellow @HarvardAsh | Co-PI & PA5 leader @institutSYRI
Mar 15, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Just as AstraZeneca reduces vaccine delivery to the EU by 73% a private company offers the city of Prague a purchase of 400k AstraZeneca vaccines at EUR 12.89/dose. Prague to contact @AstraZeneca , CZ government & fellow regional governments.
seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/lekarni…
Update, per AstraZeneca CZ: the company is not an authorized re-seller. AZ only makes business with states (for now) and at fixed rates (no profit margins for now). It is not clear if the company ever had the vaccine. Possible fraud. Unrelated attempt detected in Veneto (IT).
Aug 17, 2020 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
A very telling interview with Czech PM Andrej Babis textbook illustration for (technocratic) populism. hir.harvard.edu/shock-to-the-h…
A shorts thread on technocratic populism using AB quotes to illustrate some relevant aspects of TP. 1/12
Three elements are crucial on TP: 1) combines populist and technocratic appeal; 2) transcends LR politics (but not centrist); 3) strategically combines populist and technocratic discourse (communication) and substance (policies) 2/12.
