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The Democracy Report
V-Dem distinguishes between five high-level principles of democracy:
Components of the Liberal Democratic Index (LDI) as per the V-Dem’s ‘Democracy Report 2024’
V-Dem Report’s Methodology
Findings of the Democracy Report 2024 βAccording to the Democracy Report 2024, 42 countries (home to 35% of the world’s population) were undergoing autocratisation. βAccording to the report, 71% of the world’s population which is 5.7 billion people, live in autocracies, an increase from 48% ten years ago. β8 of the top 10 “stand-alone” autocracies were liberal or electoral democracies. In 2023, none are liberal democracies, and only 2 can be considered electoral democracies. βThe level of democracy given to the “average person in the world is down to 1985 levels”, with the sharpest decline occurring in Eastern Europe, and South and Central Asia. βThe Democracy Report 2024 indicated that the freedom of expression, clean elections, and freedom of association/civil society as the three worst affected components of democracy in autocratising countries. βThe autonomy of the electoral management bodies “is weakening substantially in 22 of the 42 autocratising countries βThe level of “liberal democracy” enjoyed by the average Indian is now “down to levels last seen in 1975 during Emergency. βThe report also noted that the only liberal democracy in the whole of South and Central Asia was Bhutan. |
India’s Concerns about Global Democracy Indices
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Practice Question Consider the following statements about the ‘Democracy Report 2024’
How many of the above statements are above is/are correct?
Answer- 2 |
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