The World's Most and Least Democratic Countries (2 Viewers)

[SAVAK]

LOL America.
Anyways, you can see the full list here

 

[Crestwood's_G]

LOL America.
Anyways, you can see the full list here

sweden number 1 was obvious but Australia 8 where is USA on this? haha

 

[JonathanM]

No surprises there. I have to visit Sweden one day *drools*

I mean... a pirate party, man, a pirate party...

 

[MaNiElla]

israhell

 

[Laika_]

um israel is only 47th


thats not that bad considering 38.5% of the worlds population live under authoritarian rule you douche

 

[gcchick]

Assholes Uzbekistan.

 

[SylviaB]

More democratic isn't necessarily better.

 

[Laika_]

notice how the top 15 most democratic countries are also generally regarded as the best countries in the world?

 

[Uncle]

Aha! Lalalala!
Kazahkstan number 120.
Up your anooses mother fucking Uzbekistan!
We more democratic than the number of prostitute in uzbekistan!

 

[gcchick]

Wa-wa-we-wa Ubekistan!
Fucka you, muthafuckerrrs!!

 

[Sentinal]

WTF - Australia doesn't even have a bill of rights

- if we did Compulsory Student Unionism would be illegal :wave:

 

[S.H.O.D.A.N.]

LOL America.
Anyways, you can see the full list here

This is based on 2006 - it is 2 years old. Why didn't you link to the most recent one?

Democracy Index - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Australia's index is unchanged, but we fell 2 spots because Switzerland and New Zealand improved.

It's amusing that Italy is below 8.0 and is barely above South Africa, yet Italy is considered 'Full Democracy' while South Africa is 'Flawed Democracy' - somebody didn't want to make waves.

 

[S.H.O.D.A.N.]

WTF - Australia doesn't even have a bill of rights

- if we did Compulsory Student Unionism would be illegal :wave:

Somebody doesn't know the difference between de facto and de jure. Or precedent. Or what a bill of rights even means (it can be as small or large as the country wants it to be - America's being extremely small, and to their obvious detriment, as it causes all sorts of confusion by essentially saying only what the government can't do, not what it can).

 

[Jessica14]

WTF - Australia doesn't even have a bill of rights

- if we did Compulsory Student Unionism would be illegal :wave:

Are you sure that a inflexible and unalterable set of definite rights and responsibilities is the way to go?

 

[kaz1]

lol Democratic People's Republic of Korea is 167.

 

[S.H.O.D.A.N.]

lol Democratic People's Republic of Korea is 167.

Communist regimes like to use words like 'democracy' and 'republic' as part of their propaganda, even though they're often neither, that little seed of doubt is one of many that makes it that little bit harder for people to rebel.

North Korea is actually even better than China at such brainwashing: defectors find it impossible to say a bad word about Kim Jong Il, instead blaming North Korea's problems on military advisers who 'mislead' him. Heck, who knows, maybe he's dead already and his military advisers ARE running the show now - he hasn't been seen since his stroke, and how would we know if he DID die?

 

[Jessica14]

lol Democratic People's Republic of Korea is 167.

I lol'ed at that too.

 

[zstar]

America is NOT a democracy.

Nowhere in their constitution does it mention democracy, It is a republic.

There's a difference.

 

[JonathanM]

America is NOT a democracy.

Nowhere in their constitution does it mention democracy, It is a republic.

There's a difference.

It uses a democratic system though?

 

[Jessica14]

America is NOT a democracy.

Nowhere in their constitution does it mention democracy, It is a republic.

There's a difference.

I'm pretty sure that this study does not go by a documented establishment of a democracy, but the government's implication that it is democratic by the policies and notions of governing that it employs.