✅ Excellent exchange on an index that builds on the rule of law and social inclusion, the cornerstones of sustainability and development.

🫱🏾‍🫲🏽With Bertelsmann Stiftung Transformation Index

🙏 Thanks so much to all of you who joined us today at #BTIdemocracies in person (Espacio Bertelsmann) and online! Special thanks to all our participants!
📽️ The recording of the session will be soon available here:
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Real Instituto Elcano Espacio Bertelsmann Bertelsmann Stiftung 🗣️Nuestra directora, Clara Bassols, y el director de Real Instituto Elcano, Charles Powell, dan la bienvenida a los asistentes e inauguran oficialmente el evento.

💻Recuerda que puedes seguirnos vía streaming para no perderte nada👇
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📢 Presentation of the Bertelsmann Transformation Index 2024. FundaciónBertelsmann Bertelsmann Stiftung
🗓️ 16/04. 17.30h CET
📍 Espacio Bertelsmann #Madrid + streaming
📲 #BTIdemocracies
⬇️ Info:
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🎙️🌎 #CuartoDeHora : Jorge Elias dialoga con Hauke Hartmann, editor del Índice de Transformación Bertelsmann (@bti_project de Bertelsmann Stiftung ). Desde 2004, el BTI analiza la #transformación #política , #económica y de la #gobernanza en países en vías de desarrollo utilizando

'Democracies have frustrated their citizens by underperforming ... Yet this pales in comparison to the way that failing authoritarian governments contribute to many of the biggest challenges facing the world' Nic Cheeseman on release of 2024 Transformation Index
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While #BTI2024 noted further autocratization worldwide, it also mentioned democratic turnarounds. Our former colleague Alexander Heinrich looked at #Nepal , #Zambia and #SouthKorea as positive cases - and says that civil society is key for democratic reset.
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Democracy across the world has slipped to its lowest standing in two decades, a report has concluded ⬇️ thetimes.co.uk/article/world-…

Further evidence, this time from Transformation Index, of multi-decade slide in democratic governance around the world. This year’s elections may tell us if we’ve hit bottom or are sinking further. World Justice Project Brookings Foreign Policy Brookings Global

At Bertelsmann Stiftung conference #StrengthenDemocracy , inspiring discussion on state of global democracy, moderated by Daniela Schwarzer with participation of Zsuzsanna Szelenyi, Nic Cheeseman and Ivan Krastev. Brilliant input & fascinating debate, relating to #BTI2024 .
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This Monday, we had the pleasure of presenting main results of the #BTI2024 at the conference #StrengthenDemocracy with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz in Berlin. Thanks to all who made this event possible Bertelsmann Stiftung.
👉youtu.be/V_FfUNqFhKI (Presentation BTI)

The hard facts are sobering.

According to the Bertelsmann Foundation's 'Transformation Index' — which monitors 140 emerging economies — there are now 63 democracies compared to 74 autocracies in the world.

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❗🌎 La calidad de la #democracia en países en vías de #desarrollo y de transformación ha ido menguando progresivamente en los últimos 20 años.
🚨 Solo 63 países, de los 137 analizados en Transformation Index de Bertelsmann Stiftung , continúan siendo democracias, mientras que la mayoría

In 2012, #Turkey achieved its best democracy status with a score of 7.7. Since then, things have gone badly under Erdoğan. The country only scores 4.2 in the current Transformation Index and is thus only a few points away from a hard-line autocracy. atlas.bti-project.org/1*2024*CV:CTC:… #BTI2024

The global erosion of democratic core institutions continues in #BTI2024 . Participation and rule of law are increasingly challenged. Main drivers: regime changes as in #Benin , #ElSalvador or #Tunisia and intensified repression in autocracies.
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50 of 74 autocracies in the #BTI2024 record their lowest level in political participation rights. Many autocrats refine control mechanisms or need to resort to more repression to stay in power. Seems like autocracies are increasingly under pressure.
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Top 10 countries which improved their democracy status in the #BTI2024 illustrate that political regression can be stopped and reversed. Elections played a crucial role in #Honduras , #Kenya , #Moldova , #Slovenia , #Zambia .
👉 democratic resilience cases at bti-project.org

With #Benin , #BurkinaFaso , #ElSalvador , #GuineaBissau , #Kyrgyzstan , #PapuaNewGuinea , #Tunisia , the #BTI2024 lists 7 new autocracies, fortifying a trend of autocratization. But: #Honduras , #Kenya , #Zambia show the tide can be turned.
👉 country reports at bti-project.org

Sobering new numbers this morning from the Bertelsmann Stiftung’s #TransformationIndex . Once systems change, they are hard - nearing impossible - to change back. #Poland demonstrating now just how difficult that work is. 1/3