{"id":286675,"date":"2024-03-12T18:53:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T13:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=286675"},"modified":"2024-03-12T18:53:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T13:23:06","slug":"democracy-report-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/democracy-report-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy Report 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source<\/strong>-This post on <strong>Democracy Report 2024<\/strong> is based on the article &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/india-one-of-the-worst-autocratisers-v-dem-report-on-democracy\/article67939573.ece#:~:text=Democracy%20in%20India&amp;text=South%20and%20Central%20Asia%20regressed,state%20of%20emergency%20in%20India%E2%80%9D.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>India \u2018one of the worst autocratisers\u2019: V-Dem report on democracy<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; published in &#8220;<strong>The Hindu<\/strong>&#8221; on 11th March 2024.<\/p>\n<h2>Why in the News?<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_286680\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-286680\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-286680\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Democracy-report-2024.png?resize=300%2C166&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Democracy report 2024\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Democracy-report-2024.png?resize=300%2C166&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Democracy-report-2024.png?resize=768%2C426&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Democracy-report-2024.png?w=951&amp;ssl=1 951w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-286680\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Source-<\/strong> The Hindu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The 2024 Democracy Report shows that India, previously labeled as an &#8220;electoral autocracy&#8221; in 2018, has worsened across many measures, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">confirming India&#8217;s status as a major autocracy<\/span>.<\/p>\n<h2>About the Report<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Released by<\/strong>&#8211; V-Dem Institute at Sweden\u2019s University of Gothenburg<\/p>\n<p><strong>Data collection<\/strong>&#8211; This report is a joint effort that engages 4,200 scholars representing 180 countries. It draws from 31 million datasets spanning 1789 to 2023 and covers 202 countries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Democracy Assessment Parameters<\/strong>&#8211; The report <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">classifies countries into four regime types<\/span> using the Liberal Democratic Index (LDI): <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Liberal Democracy<\/span>, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Electoral<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Democracy<span style=\"color: #333333;\">,<\/span> Electoral Autocracy<span style=\"color: #333333;\">, and<\/span> Closed Autocracy.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>What are the key findings of the report?<\/h2>\n<p><strong>India&#8217;s Performance<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>a.<\/strong> India is at rank <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">104 in Liberal Democratic Index (LDI)<\/span>, India ranks in the bottom 40-50% among the 179 countries reviewed.<br \/>\n<strong>b.<\/strong> It has <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">slipped further down in the Electoral Democracy Index, to 110<\/span>.<br \/>\n<strong>c.<\/strong> India is at rank 92 in Liberal Component Index.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spreading of autocratization globally<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> The report notes a <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">global trend of increasing autocratization<\/span>, affecting 42 countries and 2.8 billion people, or 35% of the world&#8217;s population.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> The report indicates that <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">South<\/span> and <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Central Asia has become the second most autocratic region globally<\/span>. In regional terms, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Bhutan stands as the sole liberal democracy<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> India, with 18% of the world&#8217;s population, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">holds about half of the population in countries experiencing autocratization<\/span>.<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid; background-color: #cfd1ba;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Component indices which add up<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. The V-Dem Liberal Democracy Index (LDI)<\/strong> measures both the liberal and electoral aspects of democracy using 71 indicators from the Liberal Component Index (LCI) and the Electoral Democracy Index (EDI).<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. The V-Dem Electoral Democracy Index (EDI)<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">measures how well regimes conduct fair elections<\/span> and <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">ensure freedom of expression<\/span>, access to information, association, and suffrage for both men and women. It also evaluates the extent to which elected officials control government policy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. The Liberal Component Index (LCI)<\/strong> aims to <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">measure the &#8220;liberal principle of democracy&#8221;<\/span> by emphasizing the protection of individual and minority rights against both state oppression and majority rule.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>UPSC Syllabus- Reports &amp; Indices<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source-This post on Democracy Report 2024 is based on the article &#8220;India \u2018one of the worst autocratisers\u2019: V-Dem report on democracy&#8221; published in &#8220;The Hindu&#8221; on 11th March 2024. Why in the News? The 2024 Democracy Report shows that India, previously labeled as an &#8220;electoral autocracy&#8221; in 2018, has worsened across many measures, confirming India&#8217;s&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/democracy-report-2024\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Democracy Report 2024<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1305],"tags":[11872,10498],"class_list":["post-286675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-index-reports-bodies","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}