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submitted 1 year ago by outofemailaliases to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

according to a site called democracymatrix there are 35 countries more democratic than the us

the countries

  • Denmark
  • Norway
  • Finland
  • Sweden
  • Germany
  • Switzerland
  • Netherlands
  • New Zealand
  • Belgium
  • Costa Rica
  • Spain
  • Luxembourg
  • Australia
  • Estonia
  • Iceland
  • Ireland
  • United Kingdom
  • Austria
  • France
  • South Korea
  • Lithuania
  • Italy
  • Portugal
  • Canada
  • Japan
  • Taiwan
  • Uruguay
  • Cyprus
  • Chile
  • Slovakia
  • Greece
  • Czech Republic
  • Latvia
  • Barbados
  • Israel

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[-] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What is this score based on? I had a quick skim of their site but my eyes kinda glazed over, polsci isn't my background. Can someone ELI5?

[-] MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

From my "took a couple polisci courses in college" perspective, this type of index is generally taken with a heavy grain of salt. Basically, the people writing the index take a bunch of stuff the consider important, and rate the countries on it. It's a slightly more formalized version of you looking at two countries with entirely different systems, and saying "I think that one works better"

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