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Home Covid-19 An Update on Pandemic Backsliding: Democracy Four Months After the Beginning of the Covid-19 Pandemic

An Update on Pandemic Backsliding: Democracy Four Months After the Beginning of the Covid-19 Pandemic

  • The V-Dem Institute has released a new dashboard tracking the effects of Covid-19 related measures on democratic standards in 146 countries.
  • Most democracies have addressed the pandemic with no or only minor violations of democratic standards.
  • There are concerning developments in 89 countries. Most of them were already autocratic before the pandemic.
  • The Pandemic Backsliding Index identifies the risk that a government is using the pandemic to erode already weak democratic institutions.
  • The areas of most concern are media freedom, limitations on the legislature, and the discriminatory and abusive enforcement of emergency measures.

 

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