Introduction: A world form the team 5

Executive summary 6

V-DEM in a nutshell 8

Section 1: State of the world 2017 - liberal and eclectoral democray 16

Section 2: Inclusion in a illution 34

Section 2.1: Women's inclustion and access to power 38

Section 2.2: Inclusion of social groups 44

Section 2.3: Political exculsion based on socioeconomic inequality 52

V-DEM Users 58

V-dem Publications 60

Refernces 69

Eppendix: Country scores for 2017 71