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The article presents an overview of selected connections of the COVID-19 pandemic with risk theories. The study first explores the basic concepts of preparing and mobilizing networks of public policy actors to act together under conditions of uncertainty. The following section discusses the pandemic risk preparedness and fighting. Then, selected possible social, economic and political effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are discussed. In summary, recommendations regarding the public management in the further stages of the pandemic development and in the post-pandemic period were indicated, as well as proposals for further research directions.

The article discusses the electoral system in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. Elections are the process of citizens electing their representatives for specific positions. In this context, the method and principles of conducting the election are important, so that its fundamental rule - universality - is preserved. Although more than a dozen electoral regulations were in force since 1989 and the traditional model of voting at a polling station was still in place, the Polish legislator also provided for postal and proxy voting. Due to the risk related to the COVID-19 pandemic, it would seem that changes to the Polish Electoral Code will be necessary. The adaptation of the new provisions to the Constitution of the Republic of Poland of 1997, however, turned out to be too ambitious a task for the domestic legislator. Therefore, the Act of April 6, 2020 on the special rules for holding general elections for the President of the Republic of Poland, ordered in 2020, did not enter into force finally, because the functioning of a democratic state ruled by law requires that fundamental rights and civil liberties, including electoral ones be guaranteed. This study is empirical in nature - it is a case study of a specific legislative action shown in a comparative approach on the example of Poland and the United States of America.

Niniejszy artykuł opiera się na metodzie analityczno-syntetycznej oraz bazuje na teorii używanej w dyplomacji zwanej dyplomacją publiczno-pośredniczą. Autor analizuje metody i sposoby komunikacji misji dyplomatycznych w czasie pandemii COVID-19, która doprowadziła do wirtualizacji życia ludzkiego. Głównymi zagadnieniami artykułu są: działalność polityczna ambasad przed pandemią, nowe warunki, do jakich musiał dostosować się świat polityki i dyplomacji, problemy i ograniczenia wynikające z konieczności wirtualnego prowadzenia dyplomacji ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem problemów ambasad Krajów Trzeciego Świata i krajów słabo rozwiniętych technologicznie, konsekwencje wynikające z przeniesienia dyplomacji z płaszczyzny face-to-face na płaszczyznę świata wirtualnego, media społecznościowe i inne wirtualne sposoby komunikacji w działalności ambasad, konsulatów, światowych liderów i innych organizacji działających na rzecz stosunków międzynarodowych, strategie komunikacji ambasad ze swoimi obywatelami, obcokrajowcami oraz innymi zagranicznymi państwami oraz partnerami This article utilises the 'Mediated public diplomacy theory' to analyse the methods and means by which diplomatic missions communicate in times of the Covid-19 pandemic, which led to the virtualisation of people's lives. The main themes of the paper are among other things: the political activities of embassies before Covid-19 and the need to adapt to the new conditions of the pandemic; social media and other virtual means of communication in the activities of embassies, consulates, world leaders, NGOs, and Co-operations active in international relations arena. Besides, other topics discussed in the paper are strategic communication of diplomatic missions with their citizens, foreigners, other foreign nations, and partners; consequences resulting from the transition of face-to-face diplomacy to the virtual world, and finally, the problems and limitations arising from the necessity of an impromptu virtual functioning of the entire diplomatic community in the ...