Petter is the chair and co-founder in 2018 of Democracy Without Borders-Sweden. Since 2011 he is the Swedish coordinator for the Campaign for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, and since 2018 he is a board member of the United Nations Association of Sweden.
The Economist’s 2023 Democracy Index says there are currently 24 full democracies, 50 flawed democracies, 34 hybrid and 59 authoritarian regimes. Only 7.8% of the world’s population live in a full democracy.
The 2022 edition of the Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) Democracy Index that was published earlier this month reports overall democratic stagnation in a year marked by Russia’s war of aggression
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Democracy Without Borders promotes global democracy. But is it self-evident what this means? This article highlights two perspectives which this term includes. What is democracy? Before elaborating on the global