This article presents evidence of a global trend of autocratization. The most visible feature of democracy – elections … – remains strong and is even improving in some places. Autocratization mainly affects non-electoral aspects of democracy such as …

This article analyses the state of democracy in 2020. The world is still more democratic than it was in the 1970s and … net declines in the last decade. A major change is that India, formerly the world’s largest democracy, turned into an … electoral autocracy. The V-Dem data suggests that direct effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on levels of liberal democracy were …

democracy in episodes of liberalization from 1900 to 2021. Our findings are the first to use a quantitative approach to … provides an important finding: we show that elections are the most common element of democracy to develop first during … democratization. However, we find little correlation between the early development of elections and successful transition to democracy …

V-Dem Annual Democracy Report 2018 …

Less than thirty years after Fukuyama and others declared liberal democracy's eternal dominance, a third wave of … from the Varieties of Democracy Project (V-Dem). We demonstrate that a third wave of autocratization is indeed unfolding … history” in 1992, it is premature to proclaim the “end of democracy” now …

which judges can be conceived of as defenders of democracy? How could judges subject to political pressures stabilize a … existing models of courts and democracy as well as original claims derived from our own work …

This study takes a new tack on the question of modernization and democracy, focused on the outcome of theoretical … interest. We argue that economic development affects the electoral component of democracy but has minimal impact on other …) elections provide a focal point for collective action. The theory is tested with two new datasets – Varieties of Democracy and …

that cut across the democracy/autocracy divide: the hereditary principle; the military principle; the ruling party … principle; the presidential and the parliamentary principles, respectively. Relying on the Varieties of Democracy data, we … public goods across space and time, controlling for the degree of democracy. We conclude by suggesting several avenues for …

Theory predicts democracy should reduce corruption. Yet, numerous scholars have found empirically that corruption … decreases at high levels of democracy but actually increases at low levels. A key weaknesses of studies that aim to explain this … inverted curvilinear relationship, however, is that they do not disaggregate the complex concept of democracy. By contrast …