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129 Posts, 0 Following, 70 Followers · Democracy Without Borders advocates global democracy. This is our official page in the fediverse.
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https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/political-regime-lexical?tab=chart&country=TJK
Data by the Lexical Index of Electoral Democracy.
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https://www.cartercenter.org/events/peace-and-democracy-perspectives-for-colombia-and-the-world/
In a world where the challenges of building peace and strengthening democracy are increasingly complex and urgent, it is essential to create spaces for...
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https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/participatory-democracy-index?tab=chart&country=ZWE
Data by V-Dem. Expert estimates of the extent of voting rights, the freedom and fairness of elections, freedoms of association and expression, and citizens...
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https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/political-regime-eiu?tab=chart&country=USA
Data by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
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https://www.democracynow.org/2000/4/18/voices_from_the_world_bank_and
Police fired tear gas and pepper spray at hundreds of demonstrators yesterday, arresting nearly 600 who came out to shut down the final day of meetings at the...
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https://www.wionews.com/videos/will-engage-some-other-time-pakistan-decides-to-skip-us-democracy-summit-435385
Pakistan has decided not to attend a US-led democracy summit, saying Islamabad is in contact with Washington on multiple issues and "we can engage on this...
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https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/democracy?Dataset=Regimes+of+the+World&Metric=%C2%ADLiberal+democracy&Sub-metric=Access+to+justice+for+men&country=ARG~AUS~BWA~CHN~OWID_WRL
Explore changes in the world's democratic and non-democratic systems.
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https://projects.voanews.com/democracy-index/?utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=voa-special-projects&utm_source=homepage
The global pandemic has not only affected health and wellness, it has also weakened democratic institutions. As the world recognizes the International Day of...
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https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/political-regime-bti?tab=chart&country=RWA
Data by the Bertelsmann Transformation Index.
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https://www.nhpr.org/2023-02-20/a-year-into-the-ukraine-war-the-worlds-biggest-democracy-still-wont-condemn-russia
As the West isolates Russian President Vladimir Putin, India has doubled down on buying Russian oil. India's prime minister calls his country's friendship with...
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https://www.wunc.org/2024-02-14/indonesia-the-worlds-third-largest-democracy-has-voted-for-a-new-president
Exit polls suggest the country's defense minister is in the lead. He has both the backing of the current president, but he also has a controversial record on...
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https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/full-democracy-lexical?tab=chart&country=PLW
Data by the Lexical Index of Electoral Democracy. Full democracies are political systems in which citizens have the right to choose the chief executive and the...
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https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/full-democracy-lexical?tab=chart&country=SWZ
Data by the Lexical Index of Electoral Democracy. Full democracies are political systems in which citizens have the right to choose the chief executive and the...
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https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/political-regime-dem-fh?tab=chart&country=DOM
Data by Freedom House. Democracies are political systems in which citizens have the right to choose the chief executive and legislature in broadly free and...
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https://theworld.org/stories/2013/08/14/next-step-libyan-democracy
The world has been watching Libya, after rebel forces entered and took control of the capital city of Tripoli Sunday night, attempting to oust Col. Moammar...
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https://www.ned.org/world-movement-for-democracy/
The World Movement for Democracy is a “network of networks” that connects and unites people and organizations around the world who are working on a...
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https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/political-regime-ert-within-regimes?tab=chart&country=CZE
Data by Episodes of Regime Transformation and V-Dem.
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https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/learning-adjusted-years-of-schooling-vs-electoral-democracy-index
Learning-adjusted years of schooling merge the quantity and quality of education into one metric, accounting for the fact that similar durations of schooling...
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https://www.weforum.org/stories/2016/12/charts-that-show-young-people-losing-faith-in-democracy/
More and more people in the West are losing faith in democracy. And the younger they are, the sharper the trend, a new study reveals.
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https://forums.justusboys.com/threads/this-is-a-democracy.223772/
If you feel pissed by the whole situation I can say I'm baffled to say the least. I was banned, according to mod word, for some
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https://matadornetwork.com/read/mapped-state-democracy-around-world/
Jan 24, 2018 - US watchdog Freedom House has reported a twelve year decline in democracy around the world, and the US is no longer leading the charge against it.
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https://carnegieendowment.org/democracy-in-a-post-covid19-world
COVID-19 has stressed state institutions and global relations. As we look ahead towards recovery, countries are going to be grappling with a variety of issues,...
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https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/liberal-democracy-index?tab=chart&country=SWZ
Data by V-Dem. Expert estimates of the extent of voting rights, the freedom and fairness of elections, freedoms of association and expression, civil liberties,...
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https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2019/04/29/dissatisfaction-with-performance-of-democracy-is-common-in-many-nations/
Around the world, more people are unhappy with the state of democracy in their countries than are content. Across 27 countries surveyed, a median of 51%
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https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/china-can-be-a-democracy-says-former-australian-pm-scott-morrison-124032900118_1.html
Morrison, who led Australia from 2018 to 2022, said the Chinese people care just as much about freedom as we do but sadly in mainland China they don't have the...
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https://www.democracywithoutborders.org/unwci-campaign/
Jul 11, 2025 - A voice for global citizens Campaign for a UN World Citizens’ Initiative The UN’s democratic deficit The United Nations is an exclusive club of...
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https://www.abebooks.com/9781555874551/Middle-East-Problems-Democracy-Issues-155587455X/plp
The Middle East and Problems of Democracy challenges the view that political reform can not be sustained in the Middle East and examines the moves toward...
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https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/deliberative-democracy-index-vdem?tab=chart&country=YEM
Data by V-Dem. Expert estimates of the extent of voting rights, the freedom and fairness of elections, freedoms of association and expression, and citizens and...
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https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/child-mortality-vs-electoral-democracy
The estimated share of newborns who die before reaching the age of five. The electoral democracy index is by V-Dem, based on expert estimates, and ranges from...
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https://www.democracynow.org/2004/4/29/bush_league_diplomacy_how_the_neoconservatives
As President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney meet with the 9/11 Commission at the White House, we speak with former CIA and State Department analyst Mel...
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https://theworld.org/segments/2024/11/19/china-sentences-45-hong-kong-democracy-activists
Forty-five prominent activists in Hong Kong were sentenced to jail for up to 10 years today, sparking criticism from foreign governments and rights groups....
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https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electoral-democracy-index?tab=chart&country=ARG
Data by V-Dem. Expert estimates of the extent to which political leaders are elected under comprehensive voting rights in free and fair elections, and freedoms...
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https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/full-democracy-lexical?tab=chart&country=TJK
Data by the Lexical Index of Electoral Democracy. Full democracies are political systems in which citizens have the right to choose the chief executive and the...
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https://thespectator.com/newsletter/who-thinks-biden-is-a-bigger-threat-to-democracy-than-trump-dc-diary-04-03-2024/
Aug 14, 2024 - RFK Jr. seemed to shock a CNN reporter when he said he could argue Biden is a bigger threat to democracy than Trump
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https://theworld.org/stories/2020/08/03/family-chinese-pro-democracy-activist-held-secret-detention-calls-his-release
Ding Jiaxi had been on a collision course with the Chinese government perhaps ever since 1989 when he was a college junior in Beijing.
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https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-vs-electoral-democracy-index
GDP per capita is adjusted for inflation and differences in living costs between countries. The electoral democracy index is by V-Dem, based on expert...
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https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/political-regime-eiu?tab=chart&country=MMR
Data by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
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https://www.wionews.com/videos/pm-modi-us-visit-india-and-america-together-in-celebration-of-democracy-pm-modi-761009
Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a grand welcome by the Indian Diaspora in New York. PM Modi called the Indians living in United States as the strong...
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https://www.hindustantimes.com/world/does-living-in-a-democracy-make-you-tall/story-Q7RpPQb2nA3LOGWBhnT8iJ.html
New research linking democracy and wellbeing suggests that men growing up in a democracy are likely to be taller than those who spend the first 20 years of...
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https://www.zvab.com/9783866490284/Pluralism-Developments-Theory-Practice-Democracy-3866490283/plp
The book focuses on the study of democratic processes. Special emphasis is put (1) on the existence of a diversity of (e. g. socio-economic,...
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https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/democracy?Dataset=Economist+Intelligence+Unit&Metric=Electoral+democracy&Sub-metric=Electoral+pluralism+index&country=ARG~AUS~BWA~CHN~OWID_WRL
Explore changes in the world's democratic and non-democratic systems.
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https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/egalitarian-democracy-index-vdem?tab=chart&country=SWZ
Data by V-Dem. Expert estimates of the extent of voting rights, the freedom and fairness of elections, freedoms of association and expression, and the...
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https://ourworldindata.org/democracy-health?t
There is a cross-country correlation between democracy and health. Is there good evidence to suggest it is causal?
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https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/egalitarian-democracy-index-vdem?tab=chart&country=JAM
Data by V-Dem. Expert estimates of the extent of voting rights, the freedom and fairness of elections, freedoms of association and expression, and the...
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https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/events-calendar/events/2025/1919-and-the-defeat-of-world-democracy.php
A lecture by Prof Elizabeth F. Thompson (Mohamed S. Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace and Professor of History, American University, Washington D.C.) organised by...
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https://www.gu.se/en/research/staffan-i-lindberg-directs-the-worlds-largest-dataset-on-democracy
What's your research about?'The short version: I measure democracy. The long version: I am Director of the V-Dem Institute, which is the largest ever social...
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https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/democracy?Dataset=Regimes+of+the+World&Metric=%C2%ADElectoral+democracy&Sub-metric=%C2%ADFree+and+fair+elections&country=ARG~AUS~BWA~CHN~OWID_WRL
Explore changes in the world's democratic and non-democratic systems.
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https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/historycultures/departments/caha/events/2023/caha1904
Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology Seminar given by Benjamin Gray (Birkbeck).
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https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/human-rights-index-vs-electoral-democracy-index
The indices are by V-Dem, based on expert estimates, and range from 0 to 1 (most rights/most democratic).
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https://ourworldindata.org/democracies-measurement
Jun 17, 2022 - There are many ways to classify and measure political systems. What approaches do different sources take? And when is which approach best?
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https://www.democracynow.org/2004/8/26/the_fourth_world_war_an_unembedded
Veteran independent filmmaker Rick Rowley who has traveled around the world telling the stories of resistance movements discusses coverage of protests and the...
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https://www.indiatimes.com/news/amid-drought-running-riot-and-farmers-committing-suicides-government-plays-spectator-253269.html
Amid drought running riot and farmers committing suicides, Government plays spectator
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https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/full-democracy-lexical?tab=chart&country=AFG
Data by the Lexical Index of Electoral Democracy. Full democracies are political systems in which citizens have the right to choose the chief executive and the...
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https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/democracy-index-eiu?tab=chart&country=AFG
Data by the Economist Intelligence Unit. Expert estimates of the extent to which citizens can choose their political leaders in free and fair elections, enjoy...
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https://theworld.org/segments/2024/04/04/hong-kong-democracy-activists-sentenced-in-court-as-crackdown-continues
The crackdown on democracy in Hong Kong continues. On Friday, multiple pro-democracy activists and opposition politicians were sentenced in a Hong Kong court....
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https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/democracy-index-polity?tab=chart&country=FRA
Data by Polity 5. Expert estimates of the extent to which open, multi-party, and competitive elections choose a chief executive who faces comprehensive...
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https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/democracy?Dataset=Regimes+of+the+World&Metric=%C2%ADElectoral+democracy&Sub-metric=Multi-party+elections&country=ARG~AUS~BWA~CHN~OWID_WRL
Explore changes in the world's democratic and non-democratic systems.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/11/america-democracy-autocracy/684335/
Oct 14, 2025 - For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself. Not anymore.<strong>...
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https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/egalitarian-democracy-index-vdem?tab=chart&country=FJI
Data by V-Dem. Expert estimates of the extent of voting rights, the freedom and fairness of elections, freedoms of association and expression, and the...
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https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/global-elections/does-democracy-really-make-the-world-more-peaceful/89646855
Jul 15, 2025 - Many people are convinced of this. But is it true? Political scientists give their opinions.
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https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/political-regime-eiu?tab=chart&country=SGP
Data by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
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https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/egalitarian-democracy-index-vdem?tab=chart&country=MMR
Data by V-Dem. Expert estimates of the extent of voting rights, the freedom and fairness of elections, freedoms of association and expression, and the...
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https://www.lse.ac.uk/united-states/events/2020-events/A-World-Safe-for-Democracy
Professor G. John Ikenberry (Princeton University) discussed the history of liberal internationalism.
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https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/energy-government-and-defense-magazines/east-timor-path-democracy-worlds-newest-nation
East Timor: The Path of Democracy for the World's Newest NationThe ConflictIn 1999 East Timor erupted in bloodshed following a vote for independence. East...
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https://theworld.org/stories/2013/08/14/where-america-stands-democracy-middle-east
Stephen Kinzer, professor of international relations at Boston University, helps us understand exactly what the Obama administration's position is on the...
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https://www.wunc.org/2024-02-13/voters-in-indonesia-worlds-3rd-largest-democracy-prepare-to-elect-a-new-president
Indonesians vote for a new president on Wednesday, amid concerns about democratic backsliding, and a front-running candidate with a record of human rights...
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https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electoral-democracy-index?tab=chart&time=2000&focus=&country=&stackMode=relative
Data by V-Dem. Expert estimates of the extent to which political leaders are elected under comprehensive voting rights in free and fair elections, and freedoms...
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https://theworld.org/stories/2016/07/31/india-scarface-style-shootout-showcases-gangland-democracy
Uttar Pradesh liquor baron's death shakes the shadowy corridors of power.
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https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/democracy?Dataset=Economist+Intelligence+Unit&Metric=Electoral+democracy&Sub-metric=Functioning+government+index&country=ARG~AUS~BWA~CHN~OWID_WRL
Explore changes in the world's democratic and non-democratic systems.
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https://ardd-jo.org/
Discover how ARDD, the Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development, empowers people and communities in Jordan and helps to shape a better future for the...
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