Countries considered as electoral democracies by Freedom House in 2012 and 2022
Electoral democracy is a type of representative democracy based on an election, on an electoral vote, as in modern liberal democracies.
Key features of full electoral democracy
- Respect for fundamental human rights
- A multiparty political system paired with political tolerance
- A democratic vote system
- Respect for the rule of law
- Democratic government administration and citizen participation
The map below shows countries considered as electoral democracies by the American organization Freedom House in 2012 and 2022.
Less than half of the world’s nations are democracies nowadays. The ending of WWI directed the birth of multiple democracies. Nevertheless, during the 1930s, many of these immature democracies regressed to being autocratic. After WWII, the number of democratic nations began rising again. But it was, the ending of the Cold War directed to a more fantastic boost in the number of democracies.
The spread of democratic political rights persisted during the early XXIst century.
