GLOBAL: ‘Civil society must be alert to the warning signs of autocratisation and respond with mass mobilisation’

CIVICUS discusses the state of democracy around the world with Staffan I Lindberg, professor of Political Science and director of the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.

V-Dem is a global project with a dataset on democracy covering 202 countries from 1789 to 2023. Involving over 4,200 scholars and other experts from 180 countries, it tracks more than 600 different aspects of democracy, providing a detailed and comprehensive view of how democratic institutions function worldwide. Researchers at the V-Dem Institute present an analysis of their key findings in the annual Democracy Report.

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