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Freedom in the World 2011: The Authoritarian Challenge to Democracy

2011 marked the sixth consecutive year in which global freedom suffered a decline—the longest consecutive period of setbacks for freedom in the nearly 40-year history of the report. . Freedom in the World 2011: The Authoritarian Challenge to Democracy .

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Freedom in the World 2011: The Authoritarian Challenge to Democracy

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  1. 2011 marked the sixth consecutive year in which global freedom suffered a decline—the longest consecutive period of setbacks for freedom in the nearly 40-year history of the report.

  2. Freedom in the World 2011:The Authoritarian Challenge to Democracy • “The decline is global, affects countries with military and economic power, affects countries that had previously shown signs of reform potential, and is accompanied by enhanced persecution of political dissidents and independent journalists. • To make matters worse, the most powerful authoritarian regimes have become more repressive, more influential in the international arena, and more uncompromising.” • “The increasing truculence of the world’s most powerful authoritarian regimes has coincided with a growing inability or unwillingness on the part of the world’s democracies to meet the authoritarian challenge, with dire consequences for the state of global freedom``

  3. Freedom in the World 2011:The Authoritarian Challenge to Democracy • Declines for freedom were registered in 40 countries in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and the former Soviet Union, representing 20 percent of the world’s total polities. • Authoritarian states including China, Iran, Russia, Venezuela, and Vietnam became more repressive. • Declines in freedom also occurred in countries that had registered positive trends in previous years, including Bahrain, Jordan, Kenya, and Kyrgyzstan. • Collective findings signal return to strong, totalitarian states.

  4. The EIU assesses the “texture of democracy,” relying on 60 indicators of a country’s electoral process and pluralism, civil liberties, government functioning, political participation, and political culture. • Countries are rated as either as a full democracy, flawed democracy, hybrid regime, or authoritarian regime. • Assessing 167 countries, the EIU found that many of the world’s democracies are “democracies” in name only; • 26 are “full democracies,” • 53 are “flawed democracies.” • 33 are classified as “hybrid regimes” (those countries that mix democratic and totalitarian practices), • 55 are outright authoritarian regimes. • Demography (2011) • 11.3 % of the world's population live in democracies • 37.1 % in flawed democracies • 14 %in hybrid regimes • 37.6 % authoritarian regimes

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