The RECONNECT project is pleased to announce the first lecture of our new Global Webinar Series: Democratic and Rule of Law Backsliding. Causes, Consequences and Prospects from around the World. This new series will take stock of major developments in specific countries and regions around the world with regard to rule of law and democracy backsliding.

In this first lecture, Prof. Haggard and Prof. Kaufman give insights on recent developments based on their newly published book: Backsliding: Democratic Regress in the Contemporary World. Prof. Stephan Haggard and Prof. Robert Kaufman are the authors of The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions (1995); Development, Democracy and Welfare States: Latin America, East Asia and Eastern Europe (2008) and Dictators and Democrats: Elites, Masses and Regime Change (2016).