Abstract
Abstract Initially the most common response to the Covid-19 crisis was the concentration of powers on executives and, in some compound systems, this concentration of powers also involved the centralization of powers on national/federal governments. Both the concentration of powers and its centralization have encroached the principle of self-government by dismantling it temporarily. The ease in which self-government was dismantled in some countries raises concerns on its solidness and on the actual capacity of some institutional systems to provide, by means of self-government, the accommodation and recognition of plurinationalism and diversity. In this chapter we examine the governmental reaction to the Covid-19 crisis in relation to self-government in five European plurinational countries: Switzerland, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy and Spain.
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