countries that sore higher in terms of democracy, whats the catch? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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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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[-] MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't really call it a "catch", but these kinds of indexes are heavily colored by the political persuasion of those creating the metrics by which the index judges. For instance, they judge various social inequalities as being a "worse democracy", which you may or may not agree with.

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