The latest edition of Democracy Report was released recently by the V-Dem Institute at Sweden’s University of Gothenburg.
The study was titled ‘Democracy Report 2022: Autocratisation Changing Nature?’.
The report classifies countries into four regime types based on their score in the Liberal Democratic Index (LDI): Liberal Democracy, Electoral Democracy, Electoral Autocracy, and Closed Autocracy.
It classifies India as an electoral autocracy ranking it 93rd on the LDI, out of 179 countries.
India is one of the top ten ‘autocratisers’ in the world says the report.