Compossible - that which can live togetherDemocracy Radar
Democracy, Backsliding and the Need for a Weekly Radar Introduction In March 2026, the V‑Dem Institute published its tenth global Democracy Report: Unraveling the Democratic Era? For the “average global citizen”, they conclude, the level of democracy is now back to where it stood in 1978. The gains of the so‑called “third wave of democratisation”, which began with Portugal’s Carnation Revolution in 1974, have been “almost entirely eradicated”. The numbers are startling. […]
