Development and freedom7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For example, scores for the US deteriorated in both HFFIW and BTI surveys.ĭemocracy and market economy – are they interrelated? ![]() This negative trend affected not only emerging-market and developing countries with a short historical record of political freedom and democracy, but also some developed countries considered as stable democracies that suffered from the wave of political populism. The list of countries that recorded substantial deterioration in political rights and civil liberties since 2007 includes, among others, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Burundi, Central African Republic, Congo (Brazzaville), Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Gabon, Honduras, Hungary, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Nicaragua, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Venezuela, and Yemen (Abramowitz, 2018). Correspondingly, between 20 the population in countries ranked as democracies by the BTI increased from 4.0 billion to 4.2 billion, while in countries ranked as autocracies the number climbed from 2.3 billion to 3.3 billion (Bertelsmann, 2018). Figure 1 shows that between 20 the percentage of countries rated by the Freedom House as “Free” and “Partly Free” decreased, while the percentage of “Non Free” countries increased. ![]()
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