The world is shocked by the coronavirus pandemic. With quarantines that have paralyzed entire countries, thousands of infected and deceased, economic crises of global magnitude and great uncertainty about the future, an exceptional but not unprecedented situation is being experienced. Human evolution was and will be marked by exogenous events that abruptly break the social dynamics, and that require a sudden rearrangement.
In this book, the author proposes a set of tools to study the political consequences of disasters, specifically to understand that in certain circumstances disasters can activate those moments in which the possibilities of institutional transformation are called "critical junctures". For this, he articulates a framework of analysis that uses the contributions of institutionalism in its historical and discursive aspects, together with the abundant literature on disasters and their political impacts.