Democratic Backsliding & Solutions

Political pressures like those used to silence legal professionals and undermine rule of law in Europe and Eurasia echo patterns of the autocratic playbook.

This Anti-Corruption Tracker focuses on the erosion or dismantling of oversight and accountability systems within the United States Executive Branch.

Georgians will fight for their democracy, as the ruling party now becomes one of the world's many paranoid, insecure dictatorships that know their days are numbered.

Tracking the use of State power requires systematically identifying linkages between individual developments and broader trends. This graphic offers one method.

Americans can no longer turn to their political leadership to avert the catastrophe of political violence.

The rhetorical threats Trump employed during his campaign are directly echoed in the titles and content of his second-term EOs.

The administration has turned consent decrees into a deregulatory weapon, and courts are beginning to confront the limits of that strategy.

At the heart of Brazil’s approach to digital constitutionalism is a legal framework that treats platform governance as essential to democracy.

When core functions of the state become warped into tools of personal enrichment or political control, ordinary people suffer. The poor and marginalized are hit hardest.

The global anti-corruption regime that the United States pioneered over many decades is bigger than any one country or regime

Bringing together expert analysis that traces this erosion, assesses the risks for democratic governance, and outlines pathways to rebuild or even reinvent these safeguards.

This series aims to document how erosion is happening, what it reveals, and what it demands from those committed to rebuilding and rethinking our systems of accountability.