Legal Approaches to Responding to Emergencies: Covid-19 as a Case Study
This document examines the use and non-use of state of emergency powers by countries across Asia and the Pacific in…
Theme: Civic Space
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law in East Africa
This is a report of a webinar on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on constitutionalism and the rule of…
The Global State of Democracy 2021
This Report provides lessons and recommendations that governments, political and civic actors, and international democracy assistance providers should consider in…
The Global State of Democracy IDEAthons
This report summarizes the main findings from each of the IDEAthons, collaborative events that engaged with issues of The Global…
How Federations Responded to Covid-19
This document explores how countries with a federal form of government responded in distinctive ways to the health and economic…
Engaging Young People and Women in European Parliament Elections
This Discussion Paper puts together relevant data on the inclusion of young people and women in European Parliament elections.
Emergency Law Responses to Covid-19 and the Impact on Peace and Transition Processes
This report explores the way governments undergoing transitions to peace and democracy have triggered emergency legal frameworks to disable some…
Democracy in the Times of Corona: Experiences of Australia, the Republic of Korea and Sweden
This document summarises the discussions of the webinar on 9 June 2020 to examine the pandemic’s potential consequences for democracy…
Beyond Representation in Pandemic Responses: Independent and International Institutions
This document explores how, in the Covid-19 pandemic and the centralization and exertion of executive power, there are key roles…
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…