Max Rånge

Halmstad, Sweden Sweden

Director of MaxRange:World monthly Political & democracy data 1789-2016

Education

The World has seen a steady growth of democracy the past 100 years, except for backlashes first between 1928 and 1945, and thereafter 1965-1974. The past 35 years has seen a remarkable growth of democracies throughout the World, reaching out to new regions with little or no previous democratic experience. Also the past decade has shown an increasing number of democratic breakthroughs, but has also been more problematic. The remaining non-democratic states has proven to be more difficult cases and the transitions to democracy has given a different outcome than previous succesful transitions during the third wave of democracy. In contrast to the large majority of Qualified democratisations...