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Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean

Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean

Overview of democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean can be compared[1] according to the different definitions of democracy.[2] The V-Dem Democracy indices considers the Latin American and Caribbean countries with the highest democracy scores in 2023 as Costa Rica, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Jamaica and countries with lowest democracy scores as Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela.[3] Democratic backsliding can be observed in parts of Latin America and the Caribbean.[4][5] Democratization is reported by V-Dem Democracy Report 2024 in Brazil, Dominican Republic, Honduras and Bolivia.[6]

Map of V-Dem Electoral Democracy Index in Latin America and the Caribbean for 2023

Measures of democracy

The table below shows Latin American and Caribbean countries scored on 2 high-level V-Dem Democracy indices and 4 mid-level Democracy Component indices published in 2024 evaluating the state of democracy in year 2023.[6][3][7]

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See also

References

  1. [1]
    Geissel, Brigitte; Kneuer, Marianne; Lauth, Hans-Joachim (2016). "Measuring the quality of democracy: Introduction". International Political Science Review. 37 (5). Sage Publications: 571–579. doi:10.1177/0192512116669141. ISSN 0192-5121. JSTOR 26556872. S2CID 151808737. Retrieved 2023-04-03.
  2. [2]
    Greenwood, Shannon (2022-12-06). "Appendix A: Classifying democracies". Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project. Retrieved 2022-12-27.
  3. [3]
    V-Dem Institute (2024). "The V-Dem Dataset". Retrieved 7 March 2024.
  4. [4]
    Hellinger, D.C. (2020). Comparative Politics of Latin America: Democracy at Last? (3rd ed.). Routledge
  5. [5]
    Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Compilation of Selected Indices, Carla Y. Davis-Castro, Congressional Research Service, accessed 2023
  6. [6]
    Democracy Report 2024, Varieties of Democracy
  7. [7]
    Coppedge, Michael, et al. Varieties of democracy: Measuring two centuries of political change. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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