This article introduces a novel conceptualization of democratic resilience-a two-stage
process where democracies avoid democratic declines altogether or avert democratic …

We analyze the adoption of nonpharmaceutical interventions in the Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries during the early phase of the …

This article analyses the state of democracy in the world in 2019. We demonstrate that the
“third wave of autocratization” is accelerating and deepening. The dramatic loss of eight …

Democracy has come under pressure worldwide, with growing concern over an apparent
reverse wave of democratic backsliding at the global level. Bridging conceptual approaches …

This is a response to Luca Tomini's “Don't think of a wave!” and Svend-Erik Skaaning's
“Waves of autocratization and democratization”. With this rejoinder we make three …

Gradual processes of democratization and autocratization have gained increased attention
in the literature. Assessing such processes in a comparative framework remains a …

Democracy is under threat globally from democratically elected leaders engaging in erosion
of media freedom, civil society, and the rule of law. What distinguishes democracies that …

The worldwide wave of autocratization is doing away with many of the democratic
achievements made since 1989. Scholarship on international democracy promotion is yet to …

How substantial are the economic benefits from democratic regime change? We argue that
democratisation is not a discrete event but a two-stage process: autocracies first enter …

Are some countries better equipped from the onset of a democratization process to become
democracies? We compared successful and failed episodes of liberalization over the period …