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02198: Re: [WDDM] Democracy rating

From: Bruce Eggum <bruce.eggum(at)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 17:19:35 -0500
Subject: Re: [WDDM] Democracy rating

USA like some other country's on the list is not a democracy. It is a republic run by 565 representative politicians.
best government money can buy

Bruce Eggum
Gresham Wisconsin, USA


On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 7:36 AM, <Joshua N Pritikin> wrote:
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 01:00:30PM +0200, Jim Powell wrote:
> 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.

The Corruption Perceptions Index would seem to be highly correlated with
the level of democracy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index

;-)


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