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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 ●According to the Democracy Report 2024, 42 countries (home to 35% of the world’s population) were undergoing autocratisation. ○According 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. ○8 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. ●The 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. ●The 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. ●The autonomy of the electoral management bodies “is weakening substantially in 22 of the 42 autocratising countries ●The level of “liberal democracy” enjoyed by the average Indian is now “down to levels last seen in 1975 during Emergency. ●The 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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