Only 25 countries have been designated as full democracies in the report, out of 167 countries covered in the index. To be labelled a flawed democracy, countries like Chile, Israel and Italy have ...

According to the latest democracy index published by EIU, our sister company, on February 27th, global democracy is in worse shape than at any point in the nearly two-decade history of the index.

THIS YEAR reliable old Europe once again did best in the global democracy index, an annual report published by EIU, our sister company. While democracy declined across much of the world—dragged ...

Darren Walker has spent much of his life fighting inequality. From humble beginnings in rural Texas, he went on to lead one ...

Robert Reich, a University of California, Berkeley professor and sometime West Marin resident, has a new book out. Reich ...

The Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU) Democracy Index, published this year, says that there are 25 countries in the world that are "full democracies", 13 of which are in the EU.

Annual change in V-Dem liberal democracy index since 2008: -0.0110 per year Current regime classification: Electoral democracy (since 2021) Recent episodes of unrest: Strategic development in the ...

How Not to Fix American Democracy A new book argues for making the U.S. a “true” democracy, but fails at the essential strategy of persuasion.