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Articles by Anna Luhrmann
“In All EU Capitals, Enlargement Has Become a Priority”
Minister of State Lührmann, if you were to close your eyes and look forward to 2030, what kind of EU would you envision, in a perfect world?
Un’Europa sempre più unità sarebbe l’ideale per il futuro
A meno di un anno dalle elezioni europee, è giunto il momento di ascoltare i giovani europei e di costruire con loro un futuro migliore per l’Europa, scrivono Anna Lührmann, Laurence Boone e Tiago Antunes. Anna Lührmann è ministro di Stato tedesco per l’Unione europea; Laurence Boone è ministro di Stato francese per l’Unione europea; Tiago Antunes è segretario di Stato portoghese per l’Unione europea. Questo articolo è stato inviato in esclusiva a EURACTIV.
Dziś spotkanie ministrów ds. europejskich Trójkąta Weimarskiego i Ukrainy
Dzisiejsze rozmowy ministrów ds. europejskich państw Trójkąta Weimarskiego z udziałem wicepremier Ukrainy ma być poświęcone rozszerzeniu Unii Europejskiej, poinformowało Centrum Informacyjne Rządu. Na Zamku w Kórniku (Wielkopolska) spotykają się w piątek (12 maja) polski minister ds. UE Szymon Szynkowski vel Sęk, minister ds. europejskich Francji Laurence Boone oraz minister ds. europejskich i klimatu Niemiec Anna Lührmann. Gościem specjalnym jest wicepremier Ukrainy ds.
Resilience of democracies: responses to illiberal and authoritarian challenges
ABSTRACT Illiberalism and authoritarianism have become major threats to democracy across the world. In response to this development, research on the causes and processes of democratic declines has blossomed. Much less scholarly attention has been devoted to the issue of democratic resilience. Why are some democracies more resilient than others to the current trend of autocratization? What role do institutions, actors and structural factors play in this regard?
What halts democratic erosion? The changing role of accountability
ABSTRACT Worldwide, democratic erosion is on the rise, with incumbents slowly undermining the pillars of democratic competition such as political freedoms, clean elections, and a free press. While such gradual erosion frequently culminates in democratic breakdown, this is not always the case. How can accountability mechanisms contribute to halting democratic erosion before breakdown, even if they could not prevent the onset of erosion?
Gastbeitrag: Joe Biden und die Spaltung der Gesellschaft
Gastautorin Anna Lührmann, geboren 1983, ist Juniorprofessorin und Demokratieforscherin an der Universität Göteborg sowie Grüne Bundestagsdirektkandidatin für den Wahlkreis Rheingau-Taunus-Limburg.
The Myth of German Coronavirus Exceptionalism - How the Coronavirus Tests European Democracy
Table of Contents If Western media are to be believed, Germany has dealt exceptionally well with the coronavirus crisis. In the context of U.S. President Donald Trump’s ineptitude and the higher death rates in other big Western democracies, Germany is held up as an example of how to do better. But with whom is Germany being compared? If Western countries’ responses are compared with those of Asian democracies, the West has failed as a whole.
Technocracy and Populism After the Coronavirus - How the Coronavirus Tests European Democracy
Table of Contents In recent decades, there has been a dramatic expansion of technocratic modes of governance. Powers that were previously held by national parliaments have been ceded to courts, central banks, and supranational institutions. This shift was, in part, a deliberate move by national governments to regulate highly technical policy areas and maintain price stability.
State of the world 2019: autocratization surges - resistance grows
This article analyses the state of democracy in the world in 2019 based on the latest release of the V-Dem dataset (v10).1 We provide evidence that the “third wave of autocratization”2 is accelerating and deepening. Almost 35% of the world’s population now lives in autocratizing nations – 2.6 billion people – while only 8% live under regimes that are becoming more democratic.
A third wave of autocratization is here: what is new about it?
Introduction The decline of democratic regime attributes – autocratization – has emerged as a conspicuous global challenge. Democratic setbacks in countries as diverse as Brazil, Burundi, Hungary, Russia, Serbia, and Turkey have sparked a new generation of studies on autocratization.1 Two key issues are not yet settled in this reinvigorated field.
Huge concern as democracy is declining worldwide
At the end of 2017, most people in the world lived in democracies. But since then, one-third of the world’s population — or 2.5 billion people — have lived through “autocratization,” in which a leader or group of leaders began to limit those democratic attributes and to rule more unilaterally. The current autocratization trend is visible across the world — and affects Europe and the whole American continent. Only sub-Saharan Africa shows some democratic improvements on average.
Analysis | One-third of the world’s population lives in a declining democracy. That includes the United States.
A year ago, in 2017, we found that democracy was on the decline — but not as much as many pundits believed. Today, we are less optimistic than we were a year ago. Our new report shows that democracy’s decline is gaining momentum: One-third of the world’s population lives in a backsliding democracy. This is how we did our research These conclusions are based on new data released by the V-Dem Project, the largest-ever social-science effort to measure democracy around the world.
Is democracy on the decline? Not as much as some pundits want you to believe.
Recent events such as the election of Donald Trump as president and the rise of right-wing extremists in Europe have led to gloomy commentary about the state of democracy. For example, people have argued that liberal democracies are at risk of decline, that support for democracy is being eroded by the conflict between values and expertise, and that democratic backsliding has already occurred in a number of countries. Is this pessimism warranted? Not quite.
Every Place is Special or No Place is Special
By Anna Luhrmann My student stopped short and dropped to the ground, examining a track in the snow. “It’s a wolf!” he screamed with terror and excitement. My group of seven middle school students ran over to examine the track for themselves. They begged me to confirm that it was in fact a wolf, comparing their hand size to the size of the track and relishing the thought that they may be standing exactly where a wolf had been not too long ago.
Every Place is Special or No Place is Special
My student stopped short and dropped to the ground, examining a track in the snow. “It’s a wolf!” he screamed with terror and excitement. My group of seven middle school students ran over to examine the track for themselves. They begged me to confirm that it was in fact a wolf, comparing their hand size to the size of the track and relishing the thought that they may be standing exactly where a wolf had been not too long ago.
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