Malyi Visiting Fellow, Geser Ganbaatar, will be discussing how democracies are eroding globally and the common and uncommon trajectories of such change. This talk will emphasize what we should consider democratic backsliding not only through the lens of political liberalism, as most of the democratic backsliding literature focuses on, but also equally through electoral perspectives. By adopting this dual view, our understanding of democratic backsliding can provide us with some interesting insights.

Geser Ganbaatar is a PhD student in Law, Ethics, and Economics for Sustainable Development doctorate program and project associate in the EU-funded COMP-LAW project at the University of Milan, Italy. He is currently a visiting scholar at the National University of Mongolia. His research focuses on democratic backsliding, where he conducts comparative quantitative analyses outlining the different trajectories of the backsliding phenomenon. He is also serving as an advisor to the Research and Development Institute of the Parliament of Mongolia.