ABSTRACT
The main research goals of the book are to study the political and legal conditions during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and to analyse the threats and effectiveness of actions taken by the state. Achieving the goals requires examining the essence of the pandemic crisis, the role of the state in a pandemic, the problem of managing pandemic-related restrictions, the challenges facing the modern state during a pandemic, and an analysis of models for fighting the pandemic. The introduction presents the purpose of the work, research hypotheses, research questions, a description of the research methods used in the book, the characteristics of individual chapters, and the state of the relevant literature. It points to research problems related to the methods used by contemporary countries to face the challenges related to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The introduction provides a conceptual framework for the essence of the pandemic crisis and shows how to study it in order to determine the hidden value of the qualitative variable of managing restrictions, to explain the sources of similarities and differences between individual countries in the pandemic-control strategy, to define a typology of pandemic-fighting models, the difference between central and local administration in the approach to the pandemic, the impact of the pandemic on economic phenomena, as well as the international situation at the time of the pandemic.
