'Full Democracies' List: EIU Democracy Index 2020, Only 8.4% Live In 'Full Democracy'

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The State of Democracy Worldwide. The EIU Democracy Index provides a snapshot of the state of world democracy for 165 independent states and two territories. The Democracy Index is based on 5 categories: electoral process and pluralism, civil liberties, the functioning of government, political participation, and political culture. Based on their scores on 60 indicators within these categories, each country is then itself classified as one of
*4 types of regime: full democracy, flawed democracy, hybrid regime or authoritarian regime.

- A REPORT BY THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT

Democracy Index 2020: In sickness and in health?: Democracy was dealt a major blow in 2020. Almost 70% of countries covered by The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index recorded a decline in their overall score, as country after country locked down to protect lives from a novel coronavirus. The global average score fell to its lowest level since the index began in 2006. (*Download Free Report).
- More, https://www.eiu.com/n/campaigns/democracy-index-2020/
- Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index
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1. *Select Countries List: Full Dem, Flawed Dem, Hybrid, Authoritar.

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- Sources: EIU 2020 Democracy Index, https://www.eiu.com/n/campaigns/democracy-index-2020/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index



- Banner in Hong Kong asking for democracy, 2019. *DEMOCRACY, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy

- INTRO. Wiki. The Democracy Index is an index compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the research division of the Economist Group, which publishes The Economist..The index measures the state of democracy in 167 countries & territories and is based on 60 indicators grouped in 5 different categories measuring pluralism, civil liberties and political culture. In addition to a numeric scorea and a ranking, the index categorises each country into one of 4 regime types: full democracies, flawed democracies, hybrid regimes and authoritarian regimes.

- DEFINITIONS:

- FULL DEMOCRACIES are nations where civil liberties and fundamental political freedoms are not only respected but also reinforced by a political culture conducive to the thriving of democratic principles. These nations have a valid system of governmental checks and balances, an independent judiciary whose decisions are enforced, governments that function adequately, and diverse and independent media. These nations have only limited problems in democratic functioning.
- FLAWED DEMOCRACIES are nations where elections are fair and free and basic civil liberties are honoured but may have issues (e.g. media freedom infringement & minor suppression of political opposition and critics). >These nations have significant faults in other democratic aspects, including underdeveloped political culture, low levels of participation in politics, and issues in the functioning of governance.
- HYBRID REGIMES are nations with regular electoral frauds, preventing them from being fair and free democracies. These nations commonly have governments that apply pressure on political opposition, non-independent judiciaries, widespread corruption, harassment & pressure placed on the media, anaemic rule of law, and more pronounced faults than flawed democracies in the realms of underdeveloped political culture, low levels of participation in politics, and issues in the functioning of governance.
- AUTHORITARIAN REGIMES are nations 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 or free (including sham elections), 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.
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- Athena, patron goddess of Athens, Austrian Parliament Bldg. Athena has been used as an international symbol of freedom and democracy since at least the late 18th century.
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*LIST OF SELECT COUNTRIES,* 2020 EIU Democracy Index (8.4% of World's Population Live In 'Full Democracy').

- FULL DEMOCRACIES -

1. Norway
2. Iceland
3. Sweden
4. New Zealand
5. Canada
6. Finland
7. Denmark
8. Ireland
9. Australia, Netherlands
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11. Taiwan
12. Switzerland
13. Luxembourg
14. Germany
15. Uruguay
16. UK
17. --
18. Austria, Costa Rica
19. --
20. Mauritius
21. Japan
22. Spain
23. South Korea
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- FLAWED DEMOCRACIES -

24. France
25. US
26. Portugal
27. Israel, Estonia
29. Italy
33. Botswana
40. Panama
49. Brazil
53. India
55. Hungary
58. Namibia
71. Albania
73. Thailand
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- HYBRID REGIMES -

76. Bangladesh
79. Ukraine
89. Armenia
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- AUTHORITARIAN REGIMES -

104. Turkey
115. Algeria
161. Laos
167. North Korea
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- Magna Carta, 1215, England.



- John Locke expanded on Thomas Hobbes's social contract theory and developed the concept of natural rights, the right to private property and the principle of consent of the governed. His ideas form the ideological basis of liberal democracies today.