Foreign Affairs committee  It's 23.5% Russian.... No, obviously, it's really hard to quantify. Although we now speak about Europe, and I highlighted some of the changes in Europe, we see this happening across the world. It's only sub-Saharan Africa that's not affected by this trend yet, and there, arguab

Foreign Affairs committee  The UN pact or the UN agreement on immigration was the object of a little bit of discussion also in my own country in Sweden. I didn't follow the debate in Canada, unfortunately, on this but across Europe, obviously, there were strong reactions in some countries. It was used, as

Foreign Affairs committee  I don't think it necessarily stays at 30%, or whatever it is. We know this also from history. Once you have this sort of leadership in place, you can change the population's perceptions of, say, immigrants or any other part of the population. That's the worrying part of today's a

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. Have we identified the problem? I think that depends on what you mean by “the problem”. Do we know that there's backsliding going on? Yes. Do we know where it's going on? Yes, and with our data you can see the details of it, but is that the problem? Is it that we see

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, I share that completely. Let me also say that I think the changes I showed and that we've published are the sorts of the changes that we can say are statistically significant and substantial, but that doesn't mean we.... Also, in my own country, Sweden, we see some of these

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Chairman and honourable members, thank you for inviting me to be here today. With your permission, I would like to show some slides when I give my introductory remarks. I'm going to put what I have to say in a bit of a world context. I represent the V-Dem Institute. That's

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much, and apologies if the mistake is mine. I just want to give you the background, in the sense that I represent what is now the largest-ever social science international collaboration to measure and study democracy, and now, the autocratization [Technical diffic