South Africa's Vaccine Roll-Out and Its Potential Costs to Our Social Contract
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10830342 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christine Hobden (0000-0002-2061-8727), Heidi Matisonn (0000-0002-9765-4654) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 173 |
| Pages | 64-85 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | THEORIA An International Journal for Theory History and Foundations of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0495-4548 • E-ISSN: 2171-679X |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/th.2022.6917303 |
| OpenAlex | W4317496102 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
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
Business · Cohesion (chemistry · Corporate governance · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social contract · State (computer science · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Human Rights and Development · Law · Legal Issues in South Africa · Public Administration · Finance
Covid-19 and the informal economy in a small-town in South Africa
Unmasking governance failures
Citizenship in a Globalised World
Critical Evolutions in the Peacebuilding-Development Praxis Nexus
Forging a Resilient Social Contract in South Africa
Collective Responsibility and the State
Assigning Responsibilities to Institutional Moral Agents
The social contract as a tool of analysis
Feminist Morality
Between History and Nature
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |