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The US and Key Countries in the Democracy Index 2019
Posted on February 4, 2020 by Dennis SILVERMAN
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The rating ranges have a slight inherent flaw: the United States has a rating of 7.96, making it a Flawed Democracy by 4 parts in a thousand. The idea that anybody could rate anything to parts per thousand is of course a fallacy of Bentham’s rating philosophy. However, the general ratings are a good way to categorize the 167 countries.
22/167 countries are rated as full democracies. This is 13.2% of countries, but only has 5.7% of the world’s population. In 2015, when the US was still a full democracy, the range included 8.9% of the world’s population. Lots of room for improvement in the US and the world.
Oddly, we are sitting here watching Trump’s State of the Union Speech, which will actually just be Trump’s Election Year key Campaign Speech. That itself is a significant Democracy downrating action.
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In the middle three categories, the United States is below 8.00. Unfortunately, the Impeachment was for the interference with our election by foreign influence, which should lower the 9.17 Electoral Process rating. For comparison, Canada’s Overall Score was 9.22. Only political participation was below 8 at 7.78. All of the other four Canada ratings were over 9.0. I can only imagine that the 16,000 Trump lies fit into Political culture. Apparently, a lot of the economic superlatives in Trump’s speech were not true.
(Personal note: I took the 60 question quiz, and my overall rating was 7.73, not too far from the Democracy Index overall of 7.96. I was lower in the first three categories, with 7.92, 6.79, and 6.67. I was higher in the last two with 7.86 and 9.41. My estimate of the average granularity of the ratings of each category is plus or minus 0.22.)
Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan is just stating that over 278 bipartisan bills are sitting on Mitch McConnell’s desk. This must be one of the factors behind the low Functioning of government category. Trump and McConnell’s stonewalling of checks and balances in the Impeachment also fall under Functioning of government. Political participation only gets a half of a question score, since our 57% voting is below 70%.
Here are the totals for a few key countries.
Norway (no. 1) 9.87
Australia 9.09
https://sites.uci.edu/energyobserver/2020/02/04/the-us-and-key-countries-in-the-democracy-index-2019/
Posted on February 4, 2020 by Dennis SILVERMAN
[...]
The rating ranges have a slight inherent flaw: the United States has a rating of 7.96, making it a Flawed Democracy by 4 parts in a thousand. The idea that anybody could rate anything to parts per thousand is of course a fallacy of Bentham’s rating philosophy. However, the general ratings are a good way to categorize the 167 countries.
22/167 countries are rated as full democracies. This is 13.2% of countries, but only has 5.7% of the world’s population. In 2015, when the US was still a full democracy, the range included 8.9% of the world’s population. Lots of room for improvement in the US and the world.
Oddly, we are sitting here watching Trump’s State of the Union Speech, which will actually just be Trump’s Election Year key Campaign Speech. That itself is a significant Democracy downrating action.
[...]
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In the middle three categories, the United States is below 8.00. Unfortunately, the Impeachment was for the interference with our election by foreign influence, which should lower the 9.17 Electoral Process rating. For comparison, Canada’s Overall Score was 9.22. Only political participation was below 8 at 7.78. All of the other four Canada ratings were over 9.0. I can only imagine that the 16,000 Trump lies fit into Political culture. Apparently, a lot of the economic superlatives in Trump’s speech were not true.
(Personal note: I took the 60 question quiz, and my overall rating was 7.73, not too far from the Democracy Index overall of 7.96. I was lower in the first three categories, with 7.92, 6.79, and 6.67. I was higher in the last two with 7.86 and 9.41. My estimate of the average granularity of the ratings of each category is plus or minus 0.22.)
Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan is just stating that over 278 bipartisan bills are sitting on Mitch McConnell’s desk. This must be one of the factors behind the low Functioning of government category. Trump and McConnell’s stonewalling of checks and balances in the Impeachment also fall under Functioning of government. Political participation only gets a half of a question score, since our 57% voting is below 70%.
Here are the totals for a few key countries.
Norway (no. 1) 9.87
Australia 9.09
https://sites.uci.edu/energyobserver/2020/02/04/the-us-and-key-countries-in-the-democracy-index-2019/
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