Global Cases of Democratic Decline

In every region of the world, democracy is under attack by populist leaders and groups that reject pluralism and demand unchecked power to advance the ...

Democratic decline a global phenomenon, even in wealthy nations

Democratic backsliding is occurring in an unprecedented number of wealthy countries once thought immune to such forces – the United States ...

Democracy in decline worldwide, new report says - POLITICO.eu

“In Hungary, Poland, Turkey, Slovakia, Israel, and the United States, just to name the most familiar examples, the erosion of democratic ...

Global Freedom Is in Decline, But What About Democracy?

The manipulation of elections was one of the leading causes of the global decline in freedom in 2023. In most cases, contests that were ...

The Human Cost of Democratic Decline | Freedom House

Democratic governance declined for the 20th consecutive year in the 29 countries stretching from Central Europe to Central Asia, ...

Understanding and Responding to Global Democratic Backsliding

After the enormous expansion of democracy that started in the 1980s and gained momentum after the end of the Cold War, global levels of ...

Bedrocks of democracy under threat across the globe

Almost half (85) of the 173 countries surveyed suffered a decline in at least one key indicator of democratic performance in the past five years ...

Rising dissatisfaction with democracy in high-income nations

Satisfaction with democracy has declined in recent years in high-income nations ... People around the world generally believe representative ...

Democracy Index: conflict and polarisation drive a new low for ...

The annual index, which provides a snapshot of the state of global democracy, registered a decline in its total score from 5.29 in 2022 to 5.23.

The world has recently become less democratic - Our World in Data

Similarly, the number of people living in liberal democracies fell from 1.2 billion in 2012 to 1 billion a decade later. Examples of people ...

Global Patterns – The Global State of Democracy 2023

Democracy continued to weaken in 2022. There were declines in a least one indicator of democratic performance in half of the covered countries.

Global democratic decline threatens more unpredictable rules for ...

In the last four years, democracy has suffered setbacks in over 50% of countries, according to the latest edition of our Democratic ...

Democratic backsliding - Wikipedia

Proposed causes of democratic backsliding include economic inequality, rampant culture wars, culturally conservative reactions to societal changes, populist or ...

State of the world 2023: democracy winning and losing at the ballot

Fifth, out of the 60 countries holding national elections this year, 31 countries are in some degree of decline in democracy, while only three ...

Global Cases of Democratic Decline - The University of Rhode Island

Global Cases of Democratic Decline ... José Antonio Cheibub is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh ...

U.S. Allies Drive Much of World's Democratic Decline, Data Shows

American allies remain, on average, more democratic than the rest of the world. But nearly all have suffered a degree of democratic erosion ...

Understanding democratic decline in the United States

What is democratic decline? ... Globally, it is increasingly rare for an authoritarian to come to power via a coup. ... Instead, democracies in ...

'Global Cases of Democratic Decline' the topic Oct. 8 at URI

“Only in democracy can people live under the laws of their own choosing. At its best, democracy can help protect human rights, challenge grand- ...

Misunderstanding Democratic Backsliding | Journal of Democracy

One of the most common explanations of the ongoing wave of global democratic backsliding is that democracies are failing to deliver adequate socioeconomic ...

Global Challenges to Democracy? Perspectives on Democratic ...

There is a widespread perception that we are witnessing a period of democratic decline, manifesting itself in varieties of democratic ...