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Taking Democracy’s Global Pulse

Fri. March 12th, 2021
Live Online

Is the global democratic recession deepening or are new political currents emerging internationally? What is the balance of the global pandemic's political effects? 

Join us for a presentation of the Varieties of Democracy 2021 Democracy Report, “Autocratization Turns Viral,” and an in-depth, probing conversation about the state of democracy around the world with Carnegie's Thomas Carothers and V-Dem's director and project manager, Staffan Lindberg and Brigitte Seim. 

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Thomas Carothers

Harvey V. Fineberg Chair for Democracy Studies; Director, Democracy, Conflict and Governance Program

Thomas Carothers, director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program, is a leading expert on comparative democratization and international support for democracy.

Staffan I. Lindberg

Staffan I. Lindberg is director of the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute and professor of political science at the University of Gothenburg.

Brigitte Seim

Brigitte Seim is project manager of experiments for the Varieties of Democracy Institute and an assistant professor of political science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.