"I love democracy, I love the republic"."In order to secure the security and stability, the republic will be reorganised to the first galactic Empire" - Senator Palpatine

Fun fact: it's not rigging if you call it 'election fortification'

Fun fact: democracy where private corporations can donate to political candidates is not democracy but is instead a corporatocracy with a mask

Fun fact: people get frustrated with democracy when every politician fail to fulfill their campaign promises, protect them, be remotely competent or steal from public funds.

Democracy is also declining in the UK, or at least the government is trying to: the ban of peaceful protest is one of them, and right to privacy is just about all but gone with the govt. Wanting an access to all electronic communication without a warrant or any reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing.

a lot of people, specially in first world and developed countries, are getting complacent and too comfortable with having freedom and rights, obviously there's still corruption and in parliamentary democracies legislation can get stuck and politics can get stale because you need a solid majority to pass most things, but a lot people see a bit of decline and get fear mongered by their media and start getting radicalized enough to instead of looking for fixes and progression, look for accelerationism and sometimes even backwards revolutionary ideas, they forget they have it really good compared to most of the world

democracy is only good when the voting people aren't stupid. people often get carried away some candidates' entertaining and well-spoken manners and they end up voting them instead of voting the most suited candidate, a candidate that maybe isn't an agile speaker but has excellent ideas

Two big factors were missed there. Economic collapse and systemic corruption.

No one can disturb India's democracy even Prime minister can't do that😂

Also in Indonesia, not only the current president Jokowi made a way for his son to run for vice president but also the current polls showing Prabowo and Jokowi's son are winning, and Prabowo specifically said in an interview that "Indonesia isn't ready for democracy, we need an strong authoritarian leader" which is very scary.

Without a free press and free speech, democracy is simply not possible. One of the best ways to judge if a country is democratic is how free the press and speech is.

Not in Canada,Worry not citizens the Gonverment accesing bank accounts of truckers and taking away their right of protest surely doesn't mean authoritarianism🥰🥰

Democracy has powerful enemies. Who always seek revenge. Democracy must be defended every day.

"Democracy" 😂😂😂 is biggest Sci-Fi then Star Wars. No one seen it in real life, only on TV.

Have you seriously never heard anyone say Navalny before?!

2024 is when almost half of the world is going to vote! It's arguably one of the most important years that will reshape all geopolitics

This video is about 90% subjective opinion and about 10% based on anything real. BTW, the EIU is an arm of the Economist, a British newspaper, for those curious, and goes a long way to explaining the healthy dose of bias present within the video.

You didn't mention Canadian shift closer to authoritarianism.

And if democracy is destroyed across the globe, soon any bold man with a certain set of skills can carve out a dictatorship for himself in this fallen planet Obviously not me, obviously, but maybe *you* ?

I think these maps overestimate "democracy" in the western world. "Democracy" is not only being able to vote but also having a government that actually does "what their people want" as opposed to "what lobbying gtoups and other elitist groups of interest want". Within this context, is my government really democratic? Is my government really doing what the majority wants? If we are honest, I think these maps would be different.

a lot of people in the west forget that they have it pretty good despite whatever issues they have, obviously Democracies can get stale and stuck and corrupt but still, very few people with criticism have any decent solutions, most people just get fear mongered and radicalized and they have no solutions, just anger

Regular people don't have the means for a lobby group to remind their representatives to not forget about them

I can understand that North America is flawed. Still, I never knew there were a lot of flawed democracies in the world, let alone how many authoritarian countries existed and those without any democracy at all.

Seeing countries like Thailand, Maleysia, Indonesia and so on, depicted as equally democratic as Czechia, Italy and Chile seems quite wrong. I am pretty sure some are quite more "flawed" then others.

Lawfare is being used in the United States right now. It’s not upholding democracy.

Democracy is dying, even in Europe and the US.

let's be honest, political apathy is unintentionally causing us to normalize corruption and fascism rather than fight it

0:54 Wow, Belgium is a flawed democracy? I also expected Portugal to be dark blue as well!

You put Australia in green, that is 1000% wrong.

How I sleep after this info: 💤😴

Greenland is so Democratic it can't be measured. Mainly cause the entire population is 4 penguins who vote by stacking pebbles in a box that says YEA or NAY, and all the voting topics involve eating fish.

Send in the Helldivers

Democracy has never been the default for humanity and Putin's brand of democracy isn't too dissimilar to 17thC democracies.

Communal violence in India didn't suddenly sprout after 2014, and every study shows that since 1947 there has been a net decline in the number of communal violence related incidents. What has happened instead is that the country has become more polarized. Just like in the US. But "democratic backsliding"? Come on!

No way, I opened up KZfaq to find a video like this and watch it and this is the video i open to

Horrible democracy index graph only showing 5.2 to 5.6, makes everything look extreme while there is only less than 10$ change in the score

Well, more participation at least here in Germany seems more like unintelligent rumbling than an valuable part in discussions

Russian Billionaires: Oligarchs American Billionaires: Entrepreneurs 😂😂

"democracy" was the famous slogan of previous USSR group. After 1990s, the west finally took it as own slogan.

Not a fresh thing to comment on, but still massive Kudos to you guys for citing your sources and indicating where they are used in your reporting. A massive step forward in credibility and quality. Thanks guys!

Alexei Navalny criminal indictments: 2013: Embezzlement, 5 year sentence suspended 2014: Fraud, 3.5 year sentence suspended 2020: Defamation, fined $11,500 2021: Parole violation, 3.5 year sentence to prison In multiple videos from the late 2000s, Navalny compared ethnic minorities from the Caucasus and Central Asia to "cockroaches". No videos about Assange's incarceration?? Double standards

I am worry for Africa if we keep having a decline of democracy in Africa it will be hard for Africa union to integrate over Africa nation

In some countries the votes are so split up between the parties that everybody is forced into coalitions with 2 or even 3 parties. Thus, no one can really fulfill their promises because for EVERY decision you need a compromise. OR you have basically 2 parties like in the USA. So what a democracy that is when you only have 2 corrupt choices. Also democracy can be unbelievable slow which is a problem when decisions need to be made quickly (look at how slow Germany was during the Pandemic). A lot of people are bored or fed up with BS-talking politicians and feel their faith in democracy declining. Problem is: we don't have any better alternative as all other systems are even worse.

Intro, 30 seconds in, in 2024 more voters than ever before, putting democracy to its greatest test. Weird, isn't people voting what democracy is about.

I wish the subtitles were actually written and not just automatic.

"Where is democracy in decline?"...well to be fair,everywhere

It is very easy really. When most of your population have really big concerns, fears and problems that are not met by the democratic government, the people will always try to find solutions elsewhere, in whatever form.

Where TLDR News Global is popular, Democracy is in Decline by sapping our confidence in it.

Most countries that are described as democracies are not democracies, they are republics or monarchies. Another key factor to consider is that countries that are democratic but not pro-western are going to be considered illegitimate democracies because the outcome in these countries are not going to result in a pro-western government.

Well i don't know democracy declining maybe because every politician that selected somehow turned 180 the moment they took seats. Not to mention corpo/celeb/rich people felt like they can do anything without repercussions and above the law.

Full democracy does not exist anywhere. What we have is a representative democracy where a group of people in a political party is elected to control the resources and write the laws of the nation as they see fit. A real democracy would be when everything has to be voted on by the whole population before any decision can be made. In my knowledge, that has never happened, because we rarely get to vote on anything that the politicians decide on. It would be nice to try it though, a direct democracy instead of a representative democracy would certainly remove the people who are in politics just to line their own pockets and the pockets of the corporations they make deals with. Politicians are only there to make it seem like we have a choice. And we all know deep down that that is not true. But we can take back that power, and i really hope we do someday soon.

As an Indian, I can assure you that democracy is fine in India. Their are dozens of media houses and youtubers who have made a fortune criticizing the government. Supreme Court had also slapped the government whenever they try to breach constitution. The most recent example which happened a few days ago is when the SC struck down the electoral bonds that government tried to bring.

I hoping Britain is on the list. With the effective 2 party system we have and both being duplicates of each other, we can either vote for a party that wants to ban protest or a party that wants to ban protests.

Even elections aren’t democracy. Sortition is what democracy means.

The UK is not a full democracy

😢guys, careful with graph baselines. The first diagram shows a rather sensationalist view. Don't go down that alley.

In my view, democratic principles are largely evident across many Asian nations, spanning from China and Vietnam to Armenia.

People lose their freedoms "civil liberties" when they take them for granted, and want more security over freedom. In Myanmar, on February 1st, 2021, where a democratically elected government was overthrown by a military coup, the country rose up into many peaceful demonstrations first. When those demonstrations were brutally attacked, the people decided to change to armed revolution. We are currently in an ongoing revolutionary civil war.

Strictly speaking "Lawfare" can never be illegal, because it is the State that determines what constitutes legality.

Democracy is a failure, but people praise it with a religious devotion. Corrupt politicians aren't a flaw, but a feature of democracy. We need a better system, we need Meritocracy!

Democracy really is under threat, but not from the ones telling you they want to abolish democracy, but from the ones telling you they need to do this and that to protect democracy.

The issue is mostly with the narrative after the cold war where many former Soviet block countries, European colonies in Africa, and American puppet dictatorships were presumed to be democracies after holding elections in the 90s or 2000s, but labelling them democracies was premature. Most the countries which are backsliding were never really functioning democracies, they had maybe 2 or 3 normal elections at best before backsliding, butbmany didnt even have that. Basically all the central asian states of the Soviet Union, Russia and Belarus were never what we might call normal democracies. If we look at countries in the Middle East and South America, many were never democratic and instead mostly had military dictators interrupted by intermittent semi-free elections. So Egypt never really backslid, they're just in their normal state.

I don't even think you know what Democracy even means. To say the the EU or the USA live in a democracy is ridiculous.

In the UK, an unelected PM asked an unelected head of State to allow an unelected David Cameron in to an unelected upper house, to be foreign secretary. Don't tell me I live in a democracy.

If you take democracy for granted, you will loose it. : Old Indian proverb.

Well I'd say the EU. von der Leyen was parachuted in as EU Commission president by Merkel, faced no rival candidate in the farcical vote and is set to be crowned for a second term.

So Ukraine is "hybrid" democracy? What a joke

Something to keep in mind is also who makes these indexes... After all the place/context it is being made in would to a degree bias its results, or at least the definition of democracy followed by the index. At the end of the day democracy has very different meanings in different parts of the world, contingent upon social context and political culture of each country

As a Canadian I need to ask, in what timeline is Canada’s democracy less flawed then the U.S. our government has significantly more power over the people of our country. If it’s true that we are a full democracy compared to the U.S. then I believe we might be screwed.

Democracy is in decline basically because our educational system is still based on the model of the Industrial Revolution and it's completely outdated. In today's world, where you have all the information about the world available on your hands (incluind false information, lies, external propaganda and manipulations), with the exception of very few and sparce examples (like Finland or Estonia), you still have an education system that doesn't foster critical thinking, one of the most important things for democracy and the 21st century society/technology. There are only two ways to revive democracy: either we go again to the era of forums and small Internet bubbles (of the 00s) or we completely change the way we view education. If we continue with our path until now, we'll be all consumed by tyrants and go into a dystopia where people have no rights.

To be fair their definition of “flawed democracy” is pretty biased and loose

The main problem with democracy is that you can't really pursue long-term goals if left-wing and right-wing parties can't agree on stuff, and if political parties fail to agree over and over and nothing changes for years, people lose trust in democracy. Look at San Salvador, that country fixed its crime problem only thanks to a strong and smart dictator/president. I will always have the stance that a strong and smart dictator who cares about his country and people is the best form of governance, but finding this dictator is incredibly hard.

I do love how countries such as the UK, Japan, South Korea or even the United states are even considered Democracies even though known for their massive corruption scandals involving wealthy companies almost outright buying the parties policies, or media organizations to make sure you know the least about who you are voting for or who they support. I mean come on I don't see how the United states is any different to an autocracy with extra steps, like you can choose between a government that doesn't support your interest or another government that doesn't support you interest, like hell at least China or North Korea have the honesty to tell you that it ain't a democracy.

No need to get complicated about it. Russia and China support authoritarian regimes, and both those countries are rich and powerful enough to influence worldwide politics. It's far easier to destroy a free democracy than it is to build one.

Sorry but group political discussion has always been opaque. There hasn't been a time in history where it was public so saying whatsapp is a technological reason for this makes no sense. This has been the default for the entirety of history. What isn't the default is the speed at which we acquire and dispense new information nor the breadth of said information accessible

In my opinion the only problem with Americas democracy is there is no age limits

The amount of congnative disadance is craaazy

In the map at 2:10 which highlights the "non-democracies": 1) First of all, not included are China and Russia (but Belarus is). Very curious; 2) Turkmenistan, which to my understanding is about the most authoritarian country on the planet, rivaling even North Korea, also is not included (it's the country immediately above Iran); 3) Many other curious omissions too numerous to detail. Also, there is seeming inconsistency. Gabon and Niger are not indicated as authoritarian on the map 2:10 but are on the map at 2:27.

Calling navalny a martyr of democracy shows a horrible undestanding of who he was

6:15 Bangladesh mentioned🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩 WTF IS ECONOMY , WTF IS FREEEDOM OF SPEECH , WTF IS SECULARISM .

Bro america and canada is dark red

I'd say people need to stop putting Democracy on a pedestal without working hard to ensure its own constant improvement for stability. Many places just don't work out well when you put them through the wrigner. Democracy falls easily to complacency, requiring heavy upkeed. Other forms of government, like an authoritarian one, has its own issues but also can prove to be more stable in a forward notion, and so on and so forth.

maybe rising apathy and polarization are due to growing wealth inequality and social stratification. people feel less connected to those of different wealth brackets and interact with one another less. hence, the disconnect between regular folk and politicians and apathy toward authoritarianism.

full democracy : "here i am, putting a piece of paper in a box. see you in 4 - 5 years"

The fact that (at least, using the thumbnail, as well as the index itself) a country like the Philippines is listed as "democratic" whereas a country like Cuba is listed as "authoritarian" is very telling of who made the list and what purpose this serves.

I think people make the mistake that democracy's flaws are a sign that a new system should be tried, despite that it's very likely undemocratic systems would exacerbate their current concerns.

Uh oh here come all the weird anti-democracy people.

It seems that he didn't see minorities abusive nature in india

he is never gonna take a sip of that water is he ? 😂

With all the 49.3, the police brutality, sometimes pans being forbidden as well as our liberty to freely demonstrate on the streets; the fact that France isn't at least YELLOW is mind boggling to me. During the Corona period, the Economist described it as a "failing democracy" and - trust me - it has gotten WORSE

Western Europe also belongs in the orange/red zone given how they treat their people O.O

Democracy is undermined when people of their own volition vote into power such people as Trump, Erdogan, Modi, Duterte/Marcos, Bolsonaro etc. You get the government you deserve.

The United States a democracy? Very funny! Lol

Love the bibliography!

If someone is wondering, in Pakistan, the opposition leader is not allowed to run because he married his wife when she was not divorced for required n days but instead n-3 days. Welcome to the clean country! (Clean country is what literally Pakistan means)

Democracy is overrated and especially in the age of instant gratification, it is bound to be extremely chaotic for the countries that have them. Democracy is overrated because firstly, politicians are only elected for a very short period of time, say 4-5 years. Therefore, political parties have very little incentive to make long term decisions as there is absolutely no guarantee that they will be in power after those 5 years. Furthermore, even if the political parties do try to pursue long term plans, the people can get very impatient as more often than not, the people want policies passed NOW rather than waiting 20 years for it to flourish so their children can enjoy the fruits. Furthermore, it only takes an opposition to be elected after 5 years of pursuing that long term policy for all of that progress to be overturned if the party doesn't like those long term plans. The result is that countries like China can build 10,000 kilometres in 10 years and countries like the UK not being able to even build 160 miles in 20 years. Another disadvantage of democracy is that everybody gets to vote on matters that they are not necessarily experts in or even understand. What's more sexy? Someone who has a manifesto which is like a wishlist saying that the problem is simple where one has to do "Just (insert some naïve solution) + other catchy soundbites" or some nuanced politician which has less sexy policies where it details the benefits and tradeoffs of pursuing such policies to be honest to the people. Obviously many people will choose the former as easy-sounding solutions make people emotionally cope better in a very chaotic democracy. Why try to understand the nuances of the problem when a politician says that the problem is actually extremely simple in their very sexy colourful manifesto? The result is that politics becomes more and more sloganised and nuance becomes dead. Another disadvantage of democracy is that a lot of time has to be dedicated to debating every single mjnute detail of the policy in spite of whether the party has been elected or not. In many countries where they have proportional representation, a lot of political capital and time is wasted on just being able to form a coalition. And even if the coalition does materialise, everything still has to be debated anyways. The end result is that very little gets done in the space of 4 or 5 years. Again, there is a reason why China built 10,000km + of railways and motorways in 10 years and Europe hasn't built anything close to that recently especially with regards to green infrastructure. I would say Western democracy only had an illusion of it being superior because much of its wealth it has in the first place comes from its past colonisation of other countries rather than the merits of democracy per se. For example, France/UK didn't get richer because of democracy but because much of its wealth is as a result of the stolen wealth of other countries during their colonial era (or with France their continued exploitation of the Sahel region with the CFA franc). For countries like Norway, Denmark and Sweden, these countries were already wealthy before they introduced their democratic State welfare system due and more recently due to the sovereign welath fund they created with their oil reserves. It has got nothing to do with democracy per se. Democracy is overrated and people have to stop treating it like some flawless God where anything is possible. Democracy is just a means to an end and not an end in and of itself.

It's hard to think of the US as having a good score on this scale as long as there's no voter ID laws in place that would prevent non citizens from voting in the election

i miss 2016-2017 elections so bad, truly the peak of democracy

I have doubts about the map at 0:52 as it shows Belgium as a flawed democracy. Whilst it certainly has flaws and the far right is on the rise, at the moment it is without a doubt still a full democracy.

To help improve democracy around the globe help with four factors : criticism of islam/religions in general, criticism of anti westernizm, criticism of communism/wokism (not social democracy) , and lastly criticism of facism