Democracies worldwide — even many wealthy democracies long considered safely consolidated — are at risk today. Governments, policy makers, and voters face new conflicts over democratic institutions, checks and balances, which citizens can compete for office, which citizens deserve representation, and what rules of accountability apply.
This year’s Lund Critical Debate from the
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies examines the threats that democracies around the world are confronting, both from external forces and from within, as well as what governments and citizens can do to fight back.
Join
Thomas Garrett of the Community of Democracies and
Damon Wilson of the National Endowment for Democracy for a conversation on democratic backsliding, strategies for resilience, and the conditions and practices that undermine democracy: democracy ... and its opposites.
