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Freedom House Report 2008

Freedom House Report 2008. General Trends. Global negative trend 20% of all states: lower scores (CR;P.R.) 2nd subsequent year: negative trend 38 countries: neg. trend; 10 countries: pos. trend Deep Autoc. Regions (Maghreb, Middle East; Central Asia: no positive signs

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Freedom House Report 2008

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  1. Freedom House Report 2008

  2. General Trends • Global negative trend • 20% of all states: lower scores (CR;P.R.) • 2nd subsequent year: negative trend • 38 countries: neg. trend; 10 countries: pos. trend • Deep Autoc. Regions (Maghreb, Middle East; Central Asia: no positive signs • Increased islam fundamentalism • Rent economies prevent democratization • Electoral Democracies: 121 (63% of all countries) • Many El.Dem.: high corruption, low effectiveness, ruleof law weakness>> Defective Democracies

  3. Regional Development • Asia: 6 states (25%) are free; 9 are unfree; rest partly free; Indian sub-continent: negative trend (Pak, Sri L., Banglad.,Afgh. • Russia: neg. trend; influence on the neighbours gets stronger • Middle East: pos. trend is over • Latin Am.:positive, but still unstable: corruption, criminality, inequality • Africa: neg. trend; i.a.: Nigeria, Kenya as imp. states

  4. Trends 2008 • On January 16, Freedom House released the findings from the latest edition of Freedom in the World, the annual survey of global political rights and civil liberties. According to the survey’s findings, the year 2007 was marked by a notable setback for global freedom. The decline was most pronounced in South Asia, but also reached significant levels in the former Soviet Union, the Middle East and North Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa. It affected a substantial number of large and politically important countries—including Russia, Pakistan, Kenya, Egypt, Nigeria, and Venezuela—whose declines have wider regional and global implications. Furthermore, results for 2007 marked the second consecutive year in which the survey registered a decline in freedom, representing the first two-year setback in the past 15 years.

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