Measuring Democratic Erosion

Learn about our work to help policymakers and practitioners make best use of the many different approaches to studying democratic backsliding.

Dee-Brief

DEE-Brief: Measuring Democratic Erosion

Publicly available data measuring democratic erosion abounds, but it can be difficult to understand how datasets differ, their relative advantages and disadvantages, and the types of questions that each dataset is best positioned to answer.

This DEE-Brief helps policymakers, practitioners, and researchers make sense of existing measurement approaches, and highlights the Democratic Erosion Consortium’s event dataset, which measures the concrete events associated with democratic backsliding and resilience.

Learn More about Events Data
to Track Democratic Backsliding

Learn more about the Democratic Erosion Events Dataset (DEED) that is featured in our DEE-Brief.

FULL REPORT

Read Our Longer Paper on Events Data and Measuring Democratic Backsliding

Access the full academic paper on which our DEE-Brief is based.

Virtual Workshop

DEE-Brief Virtual Workshops

Explore the Virtual Workshops that we produce to disseminate and debate the findings, along with their implications for policies and programs to combat democratic backsliding.