After the most election-heavy year in recent history, democracy has hit a record low around the world, according to a new study. The global democracy index score is at just 5.17 out of 10, its lowest ...

The Economist Democracy Index rates countries on the state of their governing system each year. In the latest edition, corresponding to the year 2024, only 25 countries, representing 6.6% of the world ...

Over the last two decades, the percentage of people living in free societies has shrunk by half. Trump's love of autocrats isn't helping matters.

It is important to cultivate and arrive at a globally agreed upon conceptual framework of global democracy, a derivative of which may be a global democracy index. Image: Shutterstock The world ...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Lower voter turnout and increasingly contested results globally are threatening the credibility of elections, an intergovernmental watchdog warned on Tuesday, as its sub-index ...

Although globalization has historically allowed democracy to succeed in the creation of the current world order, it is also ...

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The Democracy Perception Index (DPI) issued its 2024 report on May 8, revealing important and interesting shifts in global perceptions about democracy, geopolitics and international relations. The ...