GlobalFocus Center launches the Democratic Resilience Index, the first quantitative instrument specifically designed to measure democratic resilience, elaborated for the European Commission and the German Marshall Fund, with a second wave running in Austria, Georgia and Poland.
The index proposes a completely new approach and methodology, grounded in both academic literature and institutional practice, aiming to identify the triggers of resilience in emerging and consolidated democracies, through a multi-dimensional assessment matrix including Politics and Governance, Media and Civil society, Economy and Foreign Affairs. It reveals the institutional/ structural resilience drivers in each country, elite agency, the key buffers against democratic backsliding, the potential crisis triggers, and provides recommendations of policy interventions designed to build more resilient democracies.
