“The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history,” one of the world’s top ...

V-Dem’s aggregate index of the health of US democracy is back to 1965 levels, just after the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Yet ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After the most election-heavy year in recent history, democracy has hit a record low around the world, according to a new study.

According to a new global democracy report, the U.S. has seen a sharp and unusually rapid decline in democratic safeguards.

The V-Dem Institute’s Democracy Report 2026 (titled “Unraveling The Democratic Era?”), considered one of the most prestigious and statistically rigorous assessments of global governance, gave ...

Greece falls to 52nd in the global Democracy Index, as the V-Dem report cites weak oversight, rule of law gaps, and lagging EU performance.

LONDON, Feb. 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- EIU's 2024 Democracy Index, launched today, sheds light on trends in democracy globally in 2024, with the annual index registering a decline in its total score ...

Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin ...

Pundits and scholars alike are concerned that democracy is eroding in the United States. These concerns are supported empirically. For example, according to V-DEM, the United States is close to losing ...