{"id":6389,"date":"2024-03-31T09:56:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T09:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=6389"},"modified":"2024-03-31T09:57:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T09:57:20","slug":"electoral-autocracy-the-downgrading-of-indias-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=6389","title":{"rendered":"Electoral Autocracy&#8217;: The Downgrading Of India&#8217;s Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6389\" class=\"elementor elementor-6389\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-aa25651 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"aa25651\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-14640bd\" data-id=\"14640bd\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0b1e736 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0b1e736\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Author:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/correspondents\/soutikbiswas\">Soutik Biswas<\/a><\/p><p><strong>Affiliation:<\/strong> India correspondent at BBC<\/p><p><strong>Organization\/Publisher:<\/strong> BBC<\/p><p><strong>Date\/Place:<\/strong> March 16, 2021\/UK<\/p><p><strong>Type of Literature:<\/strong> Article<\/p><p><strong>Word Count:<\/strong> 1693<\/p><p><strong>Link:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-india-56393944\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-india-56393944<\/a><\/p><p><strong>Keywords:<\/strong> <em>Democracy, NGO, Political Rights, Swedish Institute<\/em><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>Brief: <\/strong><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>The so-called largest democracy in the world is passing through its most difficult phase. Last week, Freedom House, a US government funded NGO, in its annual report on global political rights and liberties downgraded India\u2019s democracy status from a free democracy to a \u2018partly free democracy\u2019. In his analysis, Soutik Biswas also mentions another similar report released by a Sweden-based V-Dem institute. The Swedish institute\u2019s\u00a0 latest report on democracy declared India as an \u201celectoral autocracy\u201d. Not only this, but the latest Democracy Index published last month by the Economist Intelligence unit described India\u2014which slipped to 53<sup>rd<\/sup> position\u2014as a \u2018flawed democracy\u2019. According to the Freedom House annual report, since Modi came to power, civil liberties in India have been in continuous decline. V-Dem said the &#8220;diminishing of freedom of expression, the media, and civil society have gone the furthest&#8221; during Modi&#8217;s rule, and that as far as censorship goes, India was &#8220;as autocratic as Pakistan and worse than its neighbors Bangladesh and Nepal&#8221;. According to the Democracy Index, India\u2019s ranking declined due to the anti-Muslim policies of Modi\u2019s government and its attack on civil liberties. The Indian foreign minister in his response rejected the findings and came out with the denunciation of these reports. In his conclusion, the author discusses the academic value and credibility of such global indexing and reports. In a nutshell, these reports are useful for academic and research purposes and also identify broad trends where the country is heading.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>By:<\/strong> Maryam Khan, CIGA Research Associate<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Soutik Biswas Affiliation: India correspondent at BBC Organization\/Publisher: BBC Date\/Place: March 16, 2021\/UK Type of Literature: Article Word Count: 1693 Link: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-india-56393944 Keywords: Democracy, NGO, Political Rights, Swedish Institute \u00a0 Brief: \u00a0 The so-called largest democracy in the world is passing through its most difficult phase. 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