COVID-DEM TRACKER

The COVID-DEM Global Democracy & Pandemic Tracker ran from April 2020-April 2022 to help democracy analysts worldwide track, compile, and share information on how COVID-19 challenged and changed democratic governance. It is now an archival database.

over 3,000 items

 

OVERVIEW

 

  • The Tracker contains 7 categories:

    Databases | Policy Analysis | Academic Research | Blog Posts | Media Analysis | Webinars | Podcasts

    For most of the project’s duration we issued 2 full newsletters every week.

  • The Tracker contains information on:

    | Democratic rights and freedoms

    | Democracy v authoritarianism in the fight against COVID-19

    | Elections

    | Emergency powers

    | Power grabs

    | Alternative governance (e.g. online parliaments)

    | Democratic reforms

  • The Tracker was produced jointly by DEM-DEC Director Tom Daly and COVID-DEM Editor Vincent Yap.

    Like most DEM-DEC projects, information was gathered through a combination of curation and crowdsourcing, with items sent to us from our partners, network and audience wordwide.

  • The Tracker was produced in collaboration with the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA), who partly funded the data collection.