Palestine is an authoritarian regime.

Authoritarian regimes are nations or regions where political pluralism is nonexistent or severely limited. These nations are often absolute monarchies or dictatorships, may have some conventional institutions of democracy but with meagre significance, infringements and abuses of civil liberties are commonplace, elections (if they take place) are not fair and free, the media is often state-owned or controlled by groups associated with the ruling regime, the judiciary is not independent, and censorship and suppression of governmental criticism are commonplace.

3.86

Overall democracy score, recorded in 2021.

0.86

Increase in score from when last recorded in 2020.

Score breakdown

Palestine's best attribute is it's political participation which was scored at 8.33. On the contrary, it's worst attribute is it's government functionality in which it scores 0.14. It also scores 4.38 in political culture, 3.53 in civil liberties and 2.92 in electoral process and pluralism.

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