DEMOCRATISATION ← → AUTOCRATISATION

Status: Liberal Democracy Index: 100%
AUTOCRATISATION DEMOCRATISATION

Closed Autocracy

No multiparty elections for the executive
Absence of fundamental democratic components
Absence of freedom of association
Absence of free and fair elections

Electoral Autocracy

Multiparty elections for the executive exist
Insufficient freedom of expression
Insufficient freedom of association
Elections are not free/fair

Electoral Democracy

Multiparty elections are free and fair
Satisfactory degrees of suffrage
Satisfactory freedom of expression
Satisfactory freedom of association

Liberal Democracy

Requirements of Electoral Democracy met
Judicial constraints on executive
Legislative constraints on executive
Protection of civil liberties
Equality before the law

Developed from Nord et al., 2025, p. 13

Nord, M., Altman, D., Angiolillo, F., Fernandes, T., Good God, A. and Lindberg, S.I. (2025) Democracy Report 2025: 25 Years of Autocratization – Democracy Trumped? Gothenburg: V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg (Democracy Report No. 9)