2020-12-10
In the international freedom and democracy indexes, Poland is falling in solidarity with Hungary
Synthesis:
- According to international indicators evaluating various dimensions of democracy and freedom, Poland fares poorly in comparison with other post-socialist countries: The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and clearly follows in the footsteps of the lowest-rated Hungary.
- Over the last 5 years, Poland has seen a significant drop in scores for all of the analysed indicators.
- From the leaders of the rankings for the analysed group of countries, Poland fell to one of the worst ranking places.
- Such results are evidence of the deteriorating political stability, weakening ratings of civil liberties, political rights, and thus the deteriorating quality of democracy in Poland.
- There are cases of indicators worsening in other countries of the region as well, however, with the exception of Hungary, these changes are not as significant as in Poland.
- • The leaders of the rankings in recent years are Estonia, Lithuania and the Czech Republic.
Author:
dr Katarzyna Bentkowska, Assistant Professor at the Institute for Markets and Competition of the Warsaw School of Economics
kbent@sgh.waw.pl
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