CIVICUS discusses global democratic decline with Soheïla Comninos, consultant at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University and lead author alongside Scott Warren, Fellow at the Institute, of its new report, Global Democracy Theory of Change.
This publication is the first phase of a project exploring ongoing global democratic backsliding. It highlights several key challenges including rising populist authoritarianism, economic inequality, corruption, disinformation, public mistrust and shifting power dynamics. It examines why past democracy support efforts have fallen short and seeks to spark discussion on more effective ways to support democracy.