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No full democracies score below the CPI average, and fewer than ten countries classified as hybrid regimes or authoritarian regimes score above the CPI average.

Twenty one of them have not made significant progress in their quality of democracy, five have declined from a classification of “free” to “partly free” according to Freedom House, while a further five have slid-back to authoritarian rule and are now rated as “not free”. Of the more than 60 countries which transitioned from authoritarian rule to some form of democracy in the last quarter of the 20 th century, half of them have seen their levels of democracy stagnate or even falter.

The Economist Intelligence Unit Democracy Index shows democracy stagnating in 2018 after three consecutive years of deterioration. Freedom House finds that since 2006, 113 countries have seen a net decline in their aggregate Freedom in the World score, whilst only 62 have experienced a net improvement. Over the past two decades we have witnessed democratic backsliding across the world, including in what were promising new democracies such as Turkey, Hungary and Poland, and indeed in countries which were considered to be fully functioning democracies like the US.īoth the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index and Freedom House’s Freedom in the World indices register substantial net declines in the health of democracies worldwide. Our findings suggest that strengthening institutions that provide democratic checks and balances, bridging the gap between laws and their implementation, and supporting public accountability and press freedoms, are interventions that can contribute to not only fighting corruption but also to the preservation and consolidation of democratic institutions and norms.

some populist leaders who have come to power by capitalising on public disgust with corruption, ironically, now seek to undermine anti-corruption mechanisms and democratic institutions.

countries which recently transitioned to democratic governance often did not develop effective anti-corruption and integrity mechanisms, and now find themselves stuck in a cycle of high corruption and low performing democratic institutions.

when corruption seeps into the democratic system, corrupt leaders may seek to prevent democratic checks and balances so that they can continue to remain in power unpunished.

While the reasons for this crisis are complex, our analysis highlights that: With the release of the Corruption Perceptions Index 2018, we looked at how corruption has contributed to the current threat to democracy. Indeed, even some countries which were demonstrating robust and open governance systems, are now starting to backslide with democratic norms, while their institutions are under threat. As Transparency International celebrates its 25 th anniversary, we are witnessing a worrying situation where democratic progression has slowed to a near halt. Transparency International was founded in 1993 at a time of exciting global change, which saw an accelerated wave of democratisation where countries transitioned away from authoritarian systems to democratic forms of governance.