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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEconomist's 2020 Global Democracy Index downgrades US to flawed democracy.
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/02/02/global-democracy-has-a-very-bad-year
The deterioration in the global score in 2020 was driven by declines in the average regional score in every region, but especially by large falls in the authoritarian regime-dominated regions of Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East and North Africa. The scores for these two regions declined by 0.10 and 0.09 respectively between 2019 and 2020. Western Europe and Eastern Europe both recorded a fall of 0.06 in their average regional scores. The score for Asia and Australasia, the region which has made most democratic progress during the lifetime of the Democracy Index, fell by 0.05. Latin Americas average score declined by 0.04 in 2020, marking the fifth consecutive year of regression for the region. The average score for North America fell by only 0.01, but a bigger decline of 0.04 in the US score was masked by an improvement in Canadas score.
https://www.eiu.com/n/covid-19-pandemic-causes-a-global-democracy-slump/
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Economist's 2020 Global Democracy Index downgrades US to flawed democracy. (Original Post)
BlueWavePsych
Feb 2021
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samsingh
(17,590 posts)1. there are not alot of full Democracies in the World
My Pet Orangutan
(9,171 posts)2. There are 7 full democracies,
as judged by The Economist. The criteria must be pretty tight.
Turin_C3PO
(13,893 posts)3. Looks like only
Scandinavia, Iceland, Canada, and Ireland.