‘Democracy Report 2024’ has been released by the Gothenburg-based V-Dem Institute

Current Context: The Gothenburg-based V-Dem Institute has released the ‘Democracy Report 2024’. The report is titled 'Democracy Winning and Losing at the Ballot’.

• The report is available in English and will soon be available in Spanish and Portuguese.
• It tracks democratic freedoms globally by categorizing countries into four regime types based on their scores in the Liberal Democratic Index.
• The report is a collaborative project involving 4,200 scholars from 180 countries, based on 31 million datasets covering 202 countries from 1789 to 2023.
• The report documents the process of autocratization in various countries, highlighting the gradual but substantial deterioration of freedom of expression, compromised media independence, crackdowns on social media, and harassment of journalists critical of the government.
• The report underscores the deterioration of democratic principles, particularly in the areas of freedom of expression, media independence, and civil liberties.

Question:

Q.1 Who released the ‘Democracy Report 2024’?
a. V-Dem Institute
b. United Nations
c. World Bank
d. International Monetary Fund