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.