Anon Report This Comment Date: February 22, 2022 05:37AM
Whom makes the judgement and against what measures?
I mean, the Greeks invented it, the Scandinavians had something very similar
that was regularly corrupted by social networks between key families, it
functions best with rule of law and that's being subverted seemingly all over
the place (the EU is calling something like China's 'rule by law' 'rule of law')
and that's resulting in protests and the suppression of dissent seemingly
everywhere. It also seems to work best with a constitutional monarchy as a
balance of power, but idiots deny the two can co-exist, when they have for
centuries.
Then there's the fact that the most violent pretend democracies always deny
their subjects government departments that record and issue documentation for
land - if you don't have documentation for land someone else can come along and
seize it. It makes a violent and less honest society that is at odds with each
other, whilst the children of the elite live in luxury, Swiss bank accounts
swell up and the population live in poverty.
A little clarification please. Or a lot of clarification.
pulse Report This Comment Date: February 22, 2022 09:48AM
A 1 second Google suggests [
en.wikipedia.org]
Anon Report This Comment Date: February 22, 2022 11:23PM
In other words it's incomplete? I didn't even look at that. Imagine paying
attention to Wikipedia now, it's engaged in revision of truth, they actually
claim Australia is in Oceania!
Someone compiled a list of revisions but I don't have it.
pulse Report This Comment Date: February 23, 2022 02:24AM
Yeah whatever, don't care. It just has the links to the sources.
Anon Report This Comment Date: February 23, 2022 05:29AM
Righto.
pulse Report This Comment Date: February 23, 2022 11:19PM
Quote
wikipedia
The Democracy Index is an index compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit
(EIU), the research division of the Economist Group, a UK-based private company
which publishes the weekly newspaper The Economist. Akin to a Human Development
Index but centrally concerned with political institutions and freedoms, the
index attempts to measure the state of democracy in 167 countries and
territories, of which 166 are sovereign states and 164 are UN member states.
The index is based on 60 indicators grouped in five different categories,
measuring pluralism, civil liberties and political culture. In addition to a
numeric score and a ranking, the index categorises each country into one of four
regime types: full democracies, flawed democracies, hybrid regimes and
authoritarian regimes.
On the whole, with a fairly cursory view of the countries and their ratings, I'd
probably roughly agree with a lot of it. I'd also agree with the overall
interpretation of the lot; the world is becoming worse each year and the
nutcases in power are becoming nuttier by the hour.
There's very, very few countries that are improving and those that are were
already at or near the top of the list.