Report: Kosovo, Montenegro and the Republic of Moldova electoral democracy, Serbia autocracy, Albania between the two

The 2024 Democracy Report, published on Thursday by the Swedish V-Dem Institute, has ranked Kosovo in the category of "electoral democracies.

Montenegro and North Macedonia are also listed in this category, which in the previous report were a lower rank.

Serbia is assessed as an "electoral autocracy", an assessment for Belgrade that remains unchanged since 2014. Meanwhile, Albania and Bosnia-Herzegovina remain in the "gray zone", between democracies and autocracies.

V-Dem distinguishes four types of regimes: liberal democracy, electoral democracy, electoral autocracy and closed autocracy.

"According to our best estimate...the world was almost evenly divided between 91 democracies (liberal and electoral) and 88 autocracies (electoral and closed) by the end of 2023," the report said.

Based on the Index of Liberal Democracy (between 0 and 1), Kosovo has reached 0.49 points (62nd place out of 179 countries) and remains the highest ranked country from the Western Balkans.

Montenegro follows with 0.47 points, while in global order Denmark is ranked best in this aspect with 0.88.

"The Dominican Republic and Kosovo have started their democratization process as electoral democracies and now they are further improving, or deepening, the quality of their democratic institutions... In Kosovo, the process started with the 2017 parliamentary elections after the motion of no confidence in the parliament past", the report underlines.

In the Electoral Democracy Index, Kosovo has 0.67 points and ranks 57th, in the Liberal Component Index it has 0.70 points and ranks 82nd, while in the Electoral Component Index it has 0.69 points and ranks 69th. to.

In the Participation Index, Pristina fares worse, receiving 0.52 points that rank it in 97th place.

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