The will host a policy briefing 鈥溾�� at 9 a.m. Thursday (June 28) at the Keough 91视频鈥檚 new Washington, D.C., office, 1616 P St. NW, Suite 120.
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The event will focus on the newly released Annual Democracy Report 2018, 鈥淒emocracy for All?鈥� issued by Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem), which produces the world鈥檚 largest and most comprehensive global data set on democracy.听
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The 2018 report finds that while global levels of democracy are close to an all-time high, freedom of expression, media, and civil society are under threat across different areas of the world. In several key countries 鈥� Brazil, India, Poland, Russia, Turkey, and the United States 鈥� autocratization is manifesting itself in disquieting ways. It affects one third of the world鈥檚 population 鈥� some 2.5 billion people.
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A panel of experts will include Staffan Lindberg, director of the V-Dem Institute, housed at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden; , a V-Dem principal investigator and Notre Dame professor of ; Thomas Carothers, senior vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; and Nicole Bibbins Sedaca, professor in the practice of international relations at Georgetown University. Carlos Lozada, the nonfiction book critic at the Washington Post and a 2018 Pulitzer Prize finalist, will moderate the discussion.
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鈥淭here has been much public debate recently about the decline of democracy,鈥� said Coppedge. 鈥淭his report brings precision to this discussion, confirming an erosion to democracy in certain respects, in certain countries, even though democracy remains strong overall.鈥�
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The event is free and open to the public. Advance registration is available at .
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Notre Dame鈥檚 , part of the Keough 91视频, was one of the two founding institutions for the V-Dem project, and continues to serve as a key partner for V-Dem under the leadership of Coppedge.
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Led by a team of more than 50 social scientists working with 3,000 country experts, V-Dem measures hundreds of indicators of democracy, enabling new ways to study its nature, causes and consequences. The project is headquartered at the V-Dem Institute in the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.
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Contact: Amanda Skofstad, assistant director of media relations, 574-631-4313, skofstad@nd.edu