Re: [WDDM] Democracy rating

[Bruce Eggum <bruce.eggum(at)gmail.com>]

HI all,
Is democracy possible with capitalism?
Can socialism be democratic?
What do we need to do?
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/treder20090601/
Bruce Eggum

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:09 AM, <Jim Powell> wrote:

Hi Parrhesia,

Thanks for the email.

It is a good description to say that Democracy is a slippery word.

Throughout the world democracy can best be described as a 5 year
dictatorship where the term of office is 5 years.

Switzerland has Direct Democracy at all levels of government. Each of the
Cantons and municipalities have differing levels of Direct Democracy. Bottom
of the list for level of democracy would be a dictatorship

Has anyone got a system to assess level of democracy? Is there an
organisation that carries this out?

Regards

Jim Powell

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Hammer
Sent: 02 Jun 2009 02:48 AM
To: wddm@world-wide-democracy.net

Subject: RE: [WDDM] Democracy rating

What do you mean by "Level of democracy"? What would a 100% democracy be?
Democracy is a slippery word.

Parrhesia

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Powell
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 4:01 AM
To: wddm@world-wide-democracy.net
Subject: [WDDM] Democracy rating

Hi All,

Is there a method where the level of democracy in a country can be measured
or is there an organisation that does this?

Is there a table where countries are ranked? I would expect that Switzerland
would be close to the top and Mynamar (Burma) would be close to the bottom.

Regards

Jim Powell