Democracy Silenced as Autocracy Expands: New Data from V-Dem скачать в хорошем качестве

Democracy Silenced as Autocracy Expands: New Data from V-Dem

The level of democracy in the world is in rapid decline, so much so that we can now talk about being brought back to around 1985. The number of countries undergoing autocratization is at record levels, 45 at the same time. Meanwhile, less than 1% of the world’s population live in countries that are democratizing. The 2024 “year of elections” was portrayed by observers as a “make or break” year for democracy. On balance, it seems to have more broken democracy than rejuvenated it. In this talk, Professor Staffan I. Lindberg, Director of the V-Dem Institute, presents the latest trends in democracy and autocracy around the world based on a just-released new wave of V-Dem data and this year’s V-Dem Democracy Report 2025.