Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): The global democratic regression appears well-entrenched, a new Freedom House report suggests, as declines in freedom trumped gains for the fourth consecutive year. Current trends represent the “longest continuous period of deterioration in the nearly 40-year history of Freedom in the World,” according to the democracy watchdog’s annual assessment of political rights and civil liberties.
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Freedom House report highlights continuing democratic recession – or stasis?




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