**Separate Zoom links to Day 1 and Day 2 of the Webinar are available on the Eventbrite Events Page after you have registered for the event**

Since 2005, democracy has been in recession globally. Freedom house reported a decline in each year since that time, with countries improving their democracies outnumbered by those in recession, and the global average in decline. In recent years, this recession has affected not only new, but also more advanced democracies with serious consequences and implications to democratic politics and governance.

The webinar will be held on the 9-10 December and features papers focused on the various aspects of democratic governance and recession in the Indo-Pacific, with 5 separate panels and 2 keynote speakers.

This webinar is organized by the Southeast Asia Research Initiative (SEARI), the Research Initiative on Taiwan Studies (RITS) of the University of Canterbury together with the Taiwan Institute for Governance and Communications Research (TIGCR) of the National Chengchi University, made possible with a grant from the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New Zealand.