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      1. The US is already a "flawed democracy", according to the EIU Democracy Index. But looking from the outside and in, it seems to be moving closer to "hybrid regime" right now rather than full democracy. I just hope I’m reading this wrong. eiu.com/topic/democracy-index
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      Markers of "hybrid regimes" are: • regular electoral frauds • pressure applied on political opposition • non-independent judiciaries • widespread corruption • harassment and pressure placed on the media • anaemic rule of law
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    Worryingly, the trend is generally in the wrong direction for most of the world. In the 2019 the average global score for democracy fell from 5.48 in 2018 to 5.44 (on a scale of 0-10). This is the worst average global score since the index was first produced in 2006.
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      The democracy recession Europe and US is attributed to: 1. increasing emphasis on elite/expert governance rather than popular participatory democracy 2. growing influence of unelected, unaccountable institutions and expert bodies >>>
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        3. removal of substantive issues of national importance from the political arena to be decided by politicians, experts or supranational bodies behind closed doors; 4. widening gap between political elites and parties on the one hand and national electorates on the other >>>
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          5. a decline in civil liberties, including media freedom and freedom of speech. "These regressive trends in the mature democracies developed from the 1990s onwards, accelerated in the 2000s and reached their apogee in the decade that closed in 2019."
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            The five categories across which all countries are assessed are: electoral process and pluralism; the functioning of government; political participation; political culture; and civil liberties. With the exception of political participation all have fallen sequentially since 2012.
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              The biggest decline has been for civil liberties, the score for which fell from 6.35 in 2008 to 5.74 in 2019. This decline was recorded across all regions of the world, without exception.
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                And average global score for political participation (the only one that hasn't gone down) is still the second-lowest of all the categories, after that for functioning of government.
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                  Read the EIU Democracy Index Report not only for the reasonings around how to measure democracy but for a great summary of key events in 2019 across the globe, with a major increase in political protest and social unrest in emerging-market regions. eiu.com/public/topical_report.aspx?campaignid=democracyindex2019
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                    One of the biggest risers was Thailand, whose score improved by 1.69 points compared with 2018, to 6.32, resulting in a rise of 38 places in the global rankings and a transition from a “hybrid regime” to a “flawed democracy”.
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                      India, the world's biggest democracy, fell hard - dropping 10 places. China also dropped significantly, as discrimination against minorities, especially in the north-western region of Xinjiang, intensified and digital surveillance keep growing.
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                        And on that note, please do listen to this episode of Deconstructed with mehdirhasan. That is all. axbom/1224291114032730118?s=20
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                          It’s moving fast now. eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/04/09/trump-removes-inspectors-general-blatant-corruption-column/2973535001/
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                            "The US is on its way to becoming an authoritarian state. That requires a radically different kind of journalism that doesn’t just cover the news, but defends democracy." Dear news media, stop covering the US as if it’s a democracy open.thecorrespondent.com/698/dear-news-media-stop-covering-the-us-as-if-its-a-democracy/54939391540-7ffc7bc6/app-open
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