Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After the most election-heavy year in recent history, democracy has hit a record low around the world, according to a new study.

Democracy, as we have known it, is literally unravelling in many ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump's "attacks on the press, academia, civil liberties, and dissenting voices" as reasons to downgrade the US ...

Joan Hoey, director of The Democracy Index at the Economist Intelligence Unit, discusses the latest findings of its report noting an increase of eight in the number of authoritarian regimes in the ...

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 ...

"In 2024, the same year democracy levels hit their lowest point since The Economist's Democracy Index was created in 2006, RSF noted that journalists’ work was increasingly obstructed by political ...

We use three measures to better understand the status of democracy across the advanced economies included in our survey: 2021 Democracy Index scores from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), 2022 ...