Freedom House Report Categorizes Georgia again in a Group of Transitional Governments of Hybrid Regimes

Freedom House Report categorized Georgia in a group of Transitional Governments of Hybrid Regimes.

The organization published the report Nations in Transit 2012 yesterday. Nations in Transit is Freedom House’s comprehensive, comparative study of democratic development in 29 countries from Central Europe to Eurasia.

Findings in Nations in Transit 2012 suggest that the countries that have achieved the greatest democratic success since the Cold War’s end are now displaying serious vulnerabilities in their young democratic systems. Over the past five years, stagnation and backsliding is evident in key governance indicators across the new EU member states and countries of the Balkans, the report says.

Georgia’s Democracy Score is 4.82, Electoral Process – 5.00; Civil Society – 3.75; Independent Media 4.25;

National Democratic Governance 5.75; Local Democratic Governance 5.50; Judicial Framework and Independence 5.00; and Corruption 4.50. The ratings are based on a scale of 1 to 7, with 1 representing the highest level of democratic progress and 7 the lowest.
The 2012 ratings reflect the period January 1 through December 31, 2011.

Apart from Georgia, in the group of Transitional Governments or Hybrid Regimes are the following countries: Albania 4.14, Bosnia and Herzegovina 4.36, Ukraine 4.82, Georgia 4.82, Moldova 4.89.

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