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Arab Democracy
The state of Democracy in Middle East and North Africa can be comparatively assessed according to various definitions of democracy. ''De jure'' democracies in the Middle East and North Africa are according to system of government: * Parliamentary republic: Iraq, Israel, Lebanon * Presidential republic: Syria, Tunisia, Turkey * Semi-presidential republic: Algeria, Egypt. The V-Dem Democracy indices ranked in 2024 Iraq, Israel and Tunisia as the Middle Eastern and North African countries with the highest democracy scores. The Economist Group's Democracy Index rated in the region Israel as the only "flawed democracy" and no country as "full democracy" for year 2023. Events of the "Arab Spring" such as the Tunisian Revolution may indicate a move towards democracy in some countries which may not be fully captured in the democracy index. In 2015, Tunisia became the first Arab country classified as free since the beginning of Lebanon's civil war 40 years ago. Theories are diverse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
V-Dem Electoral Democracy Index 2025 Middle East
The V-Dem Institute (an abbreviation of Varieties of Democracy Institute), founded by Staffan I. Lindberg in 2014, is an independent research institute that serves as the headquarters of the V-Dem Project, a database that seeks to conceptualize and measure democracy. V-Dem defines democracy using seven key principles (electoral, liberal, participatory, deliberative, egalitarian, majoritarian, and consensual) that emphasize the concept of "Popular sovereignty, rule of the people." The headquarters of the project is based at the department of political science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Democracy indices The V-Dem Institute publishes a number of high-profile datasets that describe qualities of different governments, annually published and publicly available for free. These datasets are used by political scientists, due to information on hundreds of indicator variables describing all aspects of government, especially on the quality of democracy, inclusivity, and other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
