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The 2008 Freedom House Survey: A Third Year of Decline
- Journal of Democracy
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 20, Number 2, April 2009
- pp. 93-107
- 10.1353/jod.0.0077
- Article
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Abstract:
Although 2008 was marked by democratic setbacks as well as authoritarian "pushback" against reformers, democracy remains the only system of government that commands global respect.