Jun 06,2020 Special Forum Democracies with Preexisting Conditions and the Coronavirus in the Indo-Pacific Around the globe, democracy is ailing. In the past 15 years or so, an increasing number of democracies worldwide have suffered from gradual erosion and decay. According to the most recent Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) report,1 examples can be found in most regions of the world including the United States and the European Union, where […] Aurel Croissant COVID-19 , democratic backsliding , free and open Indo-Pacific , Varieties of Democracy