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The Shrinking Space for Media Freedom in Southeast Europe

“The report examines the impact of the coronavirus crisis on press independence in Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia and Albania” by assessing “domestic politics and societal developments, foreign…

Democratic Deconsolidation in Developed Democracies, 1995-2018

The authors “show that levels of support for democratic governance are not stable over time, even among high-income democracies, and have declined in recent years” and “suggest that...a process of…

Democracy Report 2021. Autocratization Turns Viral

"Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) produces the largest global dataset on democracy with almost 30 million data points for 202 countries from 1789 to 2020." This report details the state of democracy in…

Democracy Report 2020. Autocratization Surges – Resistance Grows

"Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) produces the largest global dataset on democracy with some 28 million data points for 202 countries from 1789 to 2019." This report details the state of democracy in…

V-Dem Annual Democracy Report 2019​. Democracy Facing Global Challenges

"Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) produces the largest global dataset on democracy with some 27 million data points for 202 countries from 1789 to 2018." This report details the state of democracy in…

V-Dem Annual Democracy Report 2018​. Democracy for All?

"Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) produces the largest global dataset on democracy with some 19 million data for 201 countries from 1789 to 2017." This report details the state of democracy in 2017 and…

Rethinking “democratic backsliding” in Central and Eastern Europe – looking beyond Hungary and Poland

"This essay introduces contributions to a special issue of East European Politics on “Rethinking democratic backsliding in Central and Eastern Europe”, which seeks to expand the study of democratic…

Patterns of competitive authoritarianism in the Western Balkans

"The countries of the Western Balkans during the 1990s were dominated by competitive authoritarian regimes that combined multi-party elections with nationalist rhetoric and the privatisation of the…

West is best: How ‘stabilitocracy’ undermines democracy building in the Balkans

"Srđa Pavlović argues that the West’s approach to the Balkans has suffered from what he terms ‘stabilitocracy’, with the EU and United States backing governments that promise stability, but have…

The essence of democratic backsliding in the European Union: deliberation and rule of law

"This paper analyzes recent trends of democratic backsliding within the European Union (EU)" and provides "a comprehensive analysis of the essence of democratic backsliding by analyzing changes…