A Platform for Democratic Accountability
Gov Watch is the investigative and regulatory arm of the Constitutional Order Institute, created to identify, document, and confront institutions, laws, and individuals responsible for democratic erosion. It functions as a permanent database and early warning system, tracking the sources of dysfunction at every level of governance—from legislative malpractice to judicial complicity, from abusive laws to unaccountable officials.
In a world where financial fraud triggers global alerts and health epidemics are met with coordinated containment, democratic backsliding remains dangerously under-scrutinized. Authoritarian regimes rewrite constitutions, parliaments legalize repression, and judges validate impunity—often without resistance from the international community.
Gov Watch is built to change that.
Democracy cannot function without oversight. Yet today, there exists no global mechanism tasked with diagnosing the internal failures of states: no system to audit whether laws uphold public interest, whether institutions deliver constitutional mandates, or whether those in power are acting as trustees or tyrants.
Grounded in the Medical Approach to Peace, we treat the state as a political body—composed of organs (institutions), guided by prescriptions (laws), and operated by actors whose decisions determine the health or collapse of the whole. Just as physicians trace illness to its cellular origin, we trace political disorder to its market units: institutions captured, laws corrupted, and individuals who manipulate both for private or ideological gain.
Gov Watch investigates dysfunction across three core domains
Agencies, ministries, and branches of government that deviate from their public purpose—centralized, captured, or corrupted.
Legal frameworks and policies that undermine freedom, justice, and equality—treating citizens as subjects, not as stakeholders.
The architects, enablers, and operators of dysfunction—lawmakers, judges, military officials, civil servants, and political advisors among others—who design or defend systems in conflict with the public interest.
Our accountability process follows a clear three-step model
We collect evidence through investigative reporting, civil society submissions, legal analysis, and data partnerships to identify institutions, laws, and individuals in conflict with the public interest.
Where possible, we pursue non-adversarial engagement. We invite actors of concerns and offer them technical advice to correct the dysfunction. Our preference is always for reform over retribution.
When actors refuse to address well-substantiated concerns, we issue public designations and recommend stronger accountability measures. These include:
A global, searchable registry of dysfunctional institutions, unjust laws, and culpable actors
Sector-based mapping of dysfunction across governance areas—justice, security, education, civil service
Profiles of key offenders—legislators, judges, executives, and bureaucrats whose actions contribute to systemic decay
Profiles of defenders, loyalists and enablers of systemic dysfunction
Evidence-based tools for scholars, journalists, advocates, and international bodies
A long-term memory system that archives governance failures to prevent historical amnesia and ensure reform is data-driven
Gov Watch does not weaponize accountability—it institutionalizes it.
We do not advocate interventionism—we promote institutional hygiene.
We do not target nations—we expose anti-democratic architectures, regardless of geography.
Our mission is to ensure that those who design and sustain political disorder cannot hide behind sovereignty, cannot escape through silence, and cannot wash their hands of responsibility simply by crossing borders.
