Decline of democratic values
Around the world, threats to liberal democracy, open societies, and the rule of law have raised alarm bells such threats may well be particularly acute in a deeply polarized US, especially as Donald Trump prepares to challenge Biden in the 2024 presidential election. But democratic deterioration is just one dimension of the “polycrisis” that the world now faces .

According to the report “Defiance in the Face of Autocratization,” of the V-Dem Institute (Varieties of Democracy) the current wave of autocratization affects almost every region of the world, but in the Asia-Pacific, democracy has suffered significantly, and nearly 3.5 billion people now live in what the report refers to as “electoral autocracies” in these regions.

India was dubbed as flawed democracy by global democracy index .Now India has been ranked at the 108th spot globally for electoral democracy, far behind nations like Tanzania, Bolivia, Mexico, Singapore, and even Nigeria. India’s standing on the Liberal Democracy Index (LDI) is once more appallingly low, and it even has the sad distinction of falling from 100th place in 2022 to 108th this year.