democracy with the liberal dimension: constraints on the executive by the legislature and the judiciary, and the rule of law ensuring respect The world map in Figure 1 shows the state of democracy in 2023 for civil liberties. [...] The Liberal Component Index (LCI) captures the liberal aspects including checks and balances on the executive, respect for civil liberties, the rule of law, and the independence of the legislature and the judiciary. [...] To put this into perspective, In sharp contrast to all other regions of the world, the democracy 1985 marked the end of the military dictatorships in Brazil and Uru- enjoyed by the average person in Latin America and the Caribbe- guay, as the third wave of democratization was beginning to gain an increased in the past year. [...] The region stands out compared to the rest of back to the levels last seen in 1987 – the year of the crisis between the world in that a large country is democratizing while more of the India and Pakistan followed by the 1987 Pakistan atomic alert, which smaller countries are autocratizing. [...] The democratizing countries are typically smaller in size, economy, The ERT method then back-dates the start year of those processes of and population, for example The Gambia, The Maldives, and The change to the year the change began in earnest.
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