Over the past 10 years, the quality of democracy has declined in nearly one in five democracies, including in regionally important and once-stable democracies.
The latest Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Transformation Index (BTI) counts more autocratically governed states than democracies. Among the 137 countries surveyed, only 67 are still democracies, while the number of autocracies has risen to 70.
TRENDS tries to look at where Arab countries stand in terms of politics, governance and economies.
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