Thursday, January 26, 2017

The U.S. is no longer a ‘full democracy,’ a new study warns

The U.S. is no longer a 'full democracy,' a new study warns

The government of the United States got a downgrade this week: We're no longer a “full democracy,” according to the Economist Intelligence Unit's latest Democracy Index. For the first time, we were bumped down to “flawed,” thanks to an “erosion of public trust in political institutions.” According to the report's authors, a flawed democracy has free elections but “weak […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/01/26/america-is-no-longer-a-full-democracy-a-new-study-warns/

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