http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20210501-111418-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/democracy-and-the-global-pandemic/ Democracy and the Global Pandemic Daly, Tom Gerald eng 2021-05-01 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 COVID 19 democracy Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 What’s the future of the free world? What does the ‘free world’ even mean? Recent reports from leading democracy assessment bodies depict a shrinking democratic atlas that is more fragmented than it has been for decades after a steep decline in every world region.