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Relevant to AI safety insofar as democratic institutions and checks on executive power are considered prerequisites for meaningful AI oversight; democratic backsliding may undermine the political conditions needed for accountable AI governance globally.

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Summary

The V-Dem Democracy Report 2024 provides a comprehensive global assessment of democratic and autocratic trends, documenting the continued spread of authoritarianism worldwide. It tracks indicators of democratic backsliding, electoral integrity, and civil liberties across nations, offering quantitative data relevant to understanding threats to democratic governance institutions that underpin AI oversight mechanisms.

Key Points

•Documents ongoing global democratic recession with more countries autocratizing than democratizing, affecting governance structures relevant to AI regulation
•Provides empirical data on erosion of checks and balances, which has direct implications for the robustness of AI governance frameworks
•Tracks concentration of executive power and weakening of oversight institutions in numerous countries
•Quantifies threats to freedom of expression and information environments that affect public deliberation about AI policy
•Offers cross-national comparative data useful for understanding which political contexts are more or less conducive to responsible AI governance

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DEMOCRACY REPORT 2024

# emocracy Winning and Losing at the Ballot

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# V-Dem is a unique approach to measuring democracy – historical, multidimensional, nuanced, and disaggregated – employing state-ofthe-art methodology.

Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) produces the largest global dataset on democracy with over 31 million data points for 202 countries from 1789 to 2023. Involving over 4,200 scholars and other country experts, V-Dem measures over 600 different attributes of democracy.

We gratefully acknowledge our funders’ support over the years. To learn more about our funders, please visit: [https://v-dem.net/about/funders/](https://v-dem.net/about/funders/)

The Democracy Report is a signature publication of the V-Dem Institute and the views and opinions expressed herein do not reflect an official position of the larger V-Dem Project or the V-Dem Steering Committee.

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# Produced by the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg

V-Dem Institute Team: Fabio Angiolillo (Postdoctoral Researcher), Cecilia Borella (Data Team Assistant), Susanna Burmeister (Administrator & Finance Assistant), Linnea Fox (Data Manager & Data Engineer), Lisa Gastaldi (Data Analyst & Program Manager), Ana Good God (Data Collection Coordinator), Sandra Grahn (Data Collection Coordinator), Sara Haug Andersson (Communications Officer), Melina Liethmann (Data Manager & Data Engineer), Martin Lundstedt (Researcher), Valeriya Mechkova (Assistant Professor), Natalia Natsika (Program Manager), Marina Nord (Postdoctoral Researcher), Evie Papada (Research & Policy Analyst), Josefine Pernes (Executive Officer and Director of Grants), Oskar Rydén (Snr Data Scientist), Maria Verkhovtseva (Program Manager), and Staffan I Lindberg (Director & Professor).

Editor: Staffan I Lindberg

Design: Nils Pennlert, Newsroom

Printing: Stema Specialtryck AB

Cover Photo: A woman placing her vote into a ballot box at a polling

station on election day in Funafuti, the capital of the south Pacific nation

of Tuvalu, Jan 25, 2024. (Sam Pedro/AFP via Getty Images)

How to cite the main report: Nord, Marina, Martin Lundstedt, David Altman, Fabio Angiolillo, Cecilia Borella, Tiago Fernandes, Lisa Gastaldi, Ana Good God, Natalia Natsika, and Staffan I. Lindberg. 2024. Democracy Report 2024: Democracy Winning and Losing at the Ballot. University of Gothenburg: V-Dem Institute.

March 2024 Copyright ©2024 by V-Dem Institute. All rights reserved.

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