Keough School to host Washington, D.C., briefing on status of democracy around the globe | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame Skip To Content Skip To Navigation Skip To Search University of Notre Dame Notre Dame News Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us Home Contact Search Menu Home › News › Keough School to host Washington, D.C., briefing on status of democracy around the globe Keough School to host Washington, D.C., briefing on status of democracy around the globe Published: June 26, 2018 Author: Renée LaReau Michael Coppedge The Keough School of Global Affairs will host a policy briefing “Democracy for All? A global status update” at 9 a.m. Thursday (June 28) at the Keough School’s new Washington, D.C., office, 1616 P St. NW, Suite 120.   The event will focus on the newly released Annual Democracy Report 2018, “Democracy for All?” issued by Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem), which produces the world’s largest and most comprehensive global data set on democracy.    The 2018 report finds that while global levels of democracy are close to an all-time high, freedom of expression, media, and civil society are under threat across different areas of the world. In several key countries — Brazil, India, Poland, Russia, Turkey, and the United States — autocratization is manifesting itself in disquieting ways. It affects one third of the world’s population — some 2.5 billion people.   A panel of experts will include Staffan Lindberg, director of the V-Dem Institute, housed at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden; Michael Coppedge, a V-Dem principal investigator and Notre Dame professor of political science; Thomas Carothers, senior vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; and Nicole Bibbins Sedaca, professor in the practice of international relations at Georgetown University. Carlos Lozada, the nonfiction book critic at the Washington Post and a 2018 Pulitzer Prize finalist, will moderate the discussion.   “There has been much public debate recently about the decline of democracy,” said Coppedge. “This report brings precision to this discussion, confirming an erosion to democracy in certain respects, in certain countries, even though democracy remains strong overall.”   The event is free and open to the public. Advance registration is available at keough.nd.edu/democracy-all.   Notre Dame’s Kellogg Institute for International Studies, part of the Keough School, was one of the two founding institutions for the V-Dem project, and continues to serve as a key partner for V-Dem under the leadership of Coppedge.   Led by a team of more than 50 social scientists working with 3,000 country experts, V-Dem measures hundreds of indicators of democracy, enabling new ways to study its nature, causes and consequences. The project is headquartered at the V-Dem Institute in the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.   Contact: Amanda Skofstad, assistant director of media relations, 574-631-4313, skofstad@nd.edu Posted In: International Home Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us Related September 30, 2022 Nanovic Institute to welcome former President of Croatia Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović September 29, 2022 Notre Dame, Ukrainian Catholic University launch three new research grants September 27, 2022 Notre Dame, Trinity College Dublin engineers join to advance novel treatment for cystic fibrosis September 14, 2022 Apostolic nuncio to Great Britain to deliver the 2022 Keeley Vatican Lecture September 12, 2022 Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street … in different countries? For the Media Contact Office of Public Affairs and Communications Notre Dame News 500 Grace Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Pinterest © 2022 University of Notre Dame Search Mobile App News Events Visit Accessibility Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube LinkedIn