International Organizations & Democracy: Toward a Global “Guarantee Clause”

Contemporary liberal democracies, especially in Western Europe, face a major challenge in integrating Muslim immigrants as citizens of pluralistic societies.

In order to mark democracy’s progress and to inform policy, we need to be able to measure democracy in sufficient detail. The V-Dem Project aims to deliver exactly such a tool.

Although the OAS helped, sudden public revelations of corruption in Peru were more important.