this year 60+ countries and 2.2bn+ citizens will be voting in general elections.
2023s scorecard shows liberal deocracies in decline, autocracies on the increase...
2024 is extraordinary because this could be the year democracies vote for authoritarianism... whilst believing they're voting for manifesto promises.
Regimes of the World’s regime classification
Closed autocracy: citizens do not have the right to choose either the chief executive of the government or the legislature through multi-party elections.
Electoral autocracy: citizens have the right to choose the chief executive and the legislature through multi-party elections; but they lack some freedoms, such as the freedoms of association or expression that make the elections meaningful, free, and fair.
Electoral democracy: citizens have the right to choose the chief executive and the legislature in meaningful, free and fair, and multi-party elections.
Liberal democracy: electoral democracy and citizens enjoy individual and minority rights, are equal before the law, and the actions of the executive are constrained by the legislative and the courts.