International IDEA’s Global State of Democracy Report 2023 provides an update, looking primarily at changes between 2017 and 2022, and specifically examines the role of counterveiling institutions in what have been the most important recent global and regional advances and declines in key indicators of democracy.

A finales de 2022 el mundo se encuentra atrapado bajo el peso de una multitude de viejos y nuevos problemas. Las causas de la inestabilidad política y económica son innumerables, entre ellas el alza de los precios de los alimentos y la energía, el incremento de la inflación y una inminente recesión. Estos fenómenos se producen en un contexto inestable caracterizado por el persistente cambio climático, desigualdades a largo plazo sin resolver, la pandemia de la COVID-19, el descenso del nivel de vida y la guerra de agresión rusa en Ucrania.

On 5–6 December 2022, International IDEA gathered 30 leading experts on democracy, anti-corruption and human rights at the inaugural Democracy in Asia and the Pacific Outlook Forum. Representing 23 institutions and organizations from 12 countries, attendees discussed key trends in democracy in the Asia and the Pacific region over the course of seven topical sessions.

The Covid-19 pandemic initially broke out in the Asia and the Pacific region in late 2019, with the first cases in Wuhan, China. The pandemic has served as a magnifier of pre-existing democratic strengths and weaknesses within governing systems around Asia and the Pacific. In the majority of cases, the region’s hybrid and authoritarian regimes tightened their grip on society in response to the pandemic. Quality of democracy continued to decline in number of region’s democracies.