At its launch, the Centre released a report examining worldwide trends in satisfaction with democracy since the late twentieth century. The finding that democratic legitimacy had reached a fifty-year low led to coverage in the
BBC,
The Atlantic, and
Politico. A second event was held two weeks later with Canadian politician
Michael Ignatieff. With the onset of the
COVID-19 pandemic, the Centre switched from live events to press releases, podcasts, videos and data feeds to publications including the
Financial Times and
The Economist. The centre's second annual report, on the topic of youth and democracy, revealed declining satisfaction across generations. On its release, it reached the number one most popular thread worldwide on
Reddit, as well as coverage in
The Guardian,
Financial Times,
The Times, the
Daily Telegraph,
Reuters,
CNN, and the
BBC. A third report was released in January 2022 in partnership with the
Luminate Group and
YouGov examining how the global COVID-19 pandemic had affected support for democracy, political trust, and populism, and was widely covered across UK and global media. In the wake of the war in
Ukraine, the Centre released its fourth report a year later, examining trends in global attitudes towards the United States, Russia and China, finding a growing divide between western democracies and the
Global South. Since 2023, the centre's work has focused on the war in Ukraine, including published and non-published reports for the
UK government and international partners, as well as academic publications in partnership with the
Pew Research Center. ==References==