Director, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies & Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Harvard University; Unit Director, Transformations of Democracy, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Democracy is deteriorating - currently, more than half of all established democracies are worse off than they were merely 15 years ago.
Across the globe, political polarization and authoritarian tendencies are on the rise.
Yet is the future of democracy truly as bleak as statistics predict? Can we withstand the impact of digital disruption? And can the transatlantic alliance salvage democracy?