{"id":291680,"date":"2017-01-25T18:08:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-no-longer-full-democracy-economist-group-report\/"},"modified":"2017-01-25T18:08:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T17:08:00","slug":"us-no-longer-full-democracy-economist-group-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-no-longer-full-democracy-economist-group-report\/","title":{"rendered":"US no longer \u2018full democracy\u2019 \u2013 Economist Group report"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The US has been downgraded from a \u2018full democracy\u2019 to a \u2018flawed democracy\u2019 for the first time due to a declining trust in the political system, a trend which helped to underpin Donald Trump\u2019s ascension to the White House.<\/p>\n

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The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) said in its yearly report, released on Wednesday, that Trump\u2019s election victory, however, is not to blame for the democratic deficit in the US.<\/p>\n

Instead, a waning trust in the political system provided the conditions for the toppling of the established political class by the wealthy New York businessman, according to the report.<\/p>\n

The yearly Democracy Index report<\/a>, named \u2018Revenge of the Deplorables,\u2019<\/em> ranks the world’s nations based on a number of factors, providing a snapshot of the state of global democracy.<\/p>\n

Countries are scored in five categories; civil liberties, electoral process and pluralism, the functioning of government, political culture and political participation.<\/p>\n

The US\u2019s score for 2016 fell to 7.98 from its 8.05 ranking in 2015, seeing it fall below the 8.0 cut-off for a full democracy.<\/p>\n

The report\u2019s title \u201crefers to the popular revolt in 2016 against political elites who are perceived by many to be out of touch and failing to represent the interests of ordinary people,\u201d<\/em> the EIU explained.<\/p>\n

“The U.S. has been teetering on the brink of becoming a flawed democracy for several years, and even if there had been no presidential election in 2016, its score would have slipped below 8.0,”<\/em> the report read.<\/p>\n

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The US joins countries such as Japan, France, Israel, India and Chile in the \u2018flawed democracy\u2019 category.<\/p>\n

Norway, Iceland, Sweden, New Zealand, Denmark, Canada and Ireland came top of the list of ‘full democracies’, while Chad, Syria and North Korea ranked the lowest under the \u2018authoritarian\u2019 category.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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