Responding to Democratic Backsliding: A Practitioners Guide
Source: Various | Year: 2025
This guide aims to facilitate democracy support staff decision making by providing recommendations for responding to instances of democratic backsliding. It compiles current research on how such backsliding occurs and what factors have been observed to prevent further democratic decline. The goal of this guide is to help practitioners identify where they should focus their attention and how limited resources might best be applied given the pattern of democratic backsliding that a country is experiencing. We encourage readers to focus less on identifying whether a regime is a democracy or not, and more on the direction of change. The weakening of democratic norms and practices can occur in established democratic regimes, new and weak democracies, and in competitive autocracies that appeared close to transitioning to democracy. Identifying democratic backsliding and developing responses based on the pathway by which democratic weakening is occurring is relevant at all regime starting point
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