The British magazine The Economist introduced the ...
Rating this year called The Democracy Index 2011: Democracy under stress (« Democracy Under Stress ...
In preparation for rating the researchers analyzed 165 states and two territories. All of them are assigned to one of four types of modes of power: a full democracy, the lack of democracy, hybrid regime, an authoritarian regime. Compared to last year the world population living in conditions of full democracy, declined to 11.3 %, and the people living in countries with authoritarian regimes, it became more - 37.6%.
Countries with so-called ... The three ... In the ... The best position of the former Soviet republics in this category occupy Estonia ( 34th place overall ), Lithuania (41 ), Latvia (48) and Moldova ( 64).