The Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance’s (DRG) 2021-2023 learning agenda seeks to answer five learning questions, including this question on democratic backsliding. More on the DRG Learning Agenda can be found here. In this case, a team of researchers, including Paul Friesen, Jennifer McCoy, Rachel Beatty Riedl, Kenneth Roberts, and Murat Somer, conducted an extensive literature review on democratic backsliding and case studies of 15 countries that have experienced a process of democratic backsliding since 2000, with analysis of the opportunities for opening democratic spaces in these contexts.
