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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.
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.
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.
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