Western Europe is the region with the most countries designated as full democracies, improving its average score from 8.37 to 8.38 out of 10. Norway is the world-leader in the Democracy Index with ...

has been declining in democratic countries around the world. The study, published in the British Journal of Political Science ...

The report offers examples of what can be learned from them and how, in some cases, ordinary people countered ...

According to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), 45.3% of the world’s population lived in a democracy “of some sort” in 2022. The EIU rates countries on a scale of one to 10 – the ...

The United States may have the world’s most restrictive criminal disenfranchisement laws. We know of no other democracy besides ... for life. A few countries restrict the vote for a short ...

The facts are clear: Democracy is backsliding around the world. In 2024, more than 40 percent of the global population was ...

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Three Democratic senators on Monday urged U.S. President Donald Trump to "dramatically revise" the United States' trade ...