Constitutional Beginnings: Making and amending constitutions
This document examines the choice between making a new constitution and amending an existing constitution to achieve substantial constitutional change.
Geographical Coverage: Global
Constitutional Monarchs in Parliamentary Democracies
This document discusses the role of a constitutional monarch in a parliamentary democracy as a hereditary symbolic head of state…
Adapting to the New Normal: Political Parties During Lockdown and Social Distancing
This Primer highlights some of the mechanisms that are being widely used and can be adopted by political parties to…
Annual Review of Constitution-Building: 2020
This report provides a retrospective account of constitutional reform processes around the world and from a comparative perspective, and their…
Atlas of Electoral Gender Quotas
This report collects data on the use of gender quotas around the world, and it covers 85 countries and territories…
The Global State of Democracy Report
This report reviews the state of democracy around the world for the years 2020 and 2021 with democratic trends since…
Global overview of COVID-19: Impact on elections
Elections postponed due to the outbreak of COVID-19 (coronavirus disease) span the globe. Here is a list of the current…
Geographic definitions of regions in The Global State of Democracy
This document outlines the geographical divisions that underpin the qualitative analysis in the Global State of Democracy (2017). For information…
Global Monitor of COVID-19’s Impact on Democracy and Human Rights
This is global monitoring tool detects the measures adopted by governments around the world in the context of the COVID-19…
Global State Of Democracy Indices
This document measures democratic trend at the country, regional and global levels for 166 countries across a broad range of…