The Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean can be compared[1] according to the different definitions of democracy.[2] The V-Dem Democracy indices considers the Latin American and Caribbean countries with the highest democracy scores in 2023 as Costa Rica, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Jamaica and countries with lowest democracy scores as Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela.[3] Democratic backsliding can be observed in parts of Latin America and the Caribbean.[4][5]

Measures of democracy

The table below shows Latin American and Caribbean countries scored on the 5 high-level V-Dem Democracy indices in 2023.[3][6]

V-Dem Democracy Indices (13th edition)
Country Electoral Democracy Liberal Democracy Participatory Democracy Deliberative Democracy Egalitarian Democracy
 Costa Rica 0.871 0.821 0.627 0.821 0.771
 Argentina 0.823 0.642 0.56 0.642 0.642
 Chile 0.811 0.755 0.571 0.758 0.619
 Uruguay 0.804 0.715 0.639 0.662 0.632
 Jamaica 0.797 0.695 0.529 0.678 0.659
 Trinidad and Tobago 0.784 0.666 0.503 0.713 0.629
 Barbados 0.782 0.666 0.331 0.687 0.651
 Suriname 0.77 0.653 0.498 0.606 0.579
 Peru 0.744 0.627 0.517 0.444 0.455
 Panama 0.729 0.556 0.432 0.56 0.445
 Colombia 0.689 0.541 0.47 0.537 0.381
 Dominican Republic 0.679 0.465 0.46 0.605 0.369
 Brazil 0.678 0.523 0.424 0.448 0.324
 Ecuador 0.657 0.5 0.462 0.461 0.41
 Mexico 0.598 0.346 0.4 0.358 0.331
 Bolivia 0.597 0.348 0.417 0.354 0.4
 Paraguay 0.581 0.433 0.354 0.346 0.252
 Honduras 0.556 0.402 0.35 0.377 0.253
 Guyana 0.535 0.365 0.312 0.26 0.38
 Guatemala 0.435 0.263 0.259 0.239 0.174
 El Salvador 0.378 0.147 0.218 0.149 0.144
 Haiti 0.248 0.155 0.109 0.215 0.07
 Venezuela 0.214 0.064 0.159 0.041 0.106
 Cuba 0.178 0.056 0.088 0.098 0.229
 Nicaragua 0.177 0.034 0.114 0.028 0.081

References

  1. ↑ Geissel, Brigitte; Kneuer, Marianne; Lauth, Hans-Joachim (2016). "Measuring the quality of democracy: Introduction". International Political Science Review. Sage Publications. 37 (5): 571–579. doi:10.1177/0192512116669141. ISSN 0192-5121. JSTOR 26556872. S2CID 151808737. Retrieved 2023-04-03.
  2. ↑ Greenwood, Shannon (2022-12-06). "Appendix A: Classifying democracies". Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project. Retrieved 2022-12-27.
  3. 1 2 V-Dem Institute (2023). "The V-Dem Dataset". Retrieved 14 October 2023.
  4. ↑ Hellinger, D.C. (2020). Comparative Politics of Latin America: Democracy at Last? (3rd ed.). Routledge
  5. ↑ Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Compilation of Selected Indices, Carla Y. Davis-Castro, Congressional Research Service, accessed 2023
  6. ↑ Coppedge, Michael, et al. Varieties of democracy: Measuring two centuries of political change. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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