{"id":346481,"date":"2018-02-02T10:52:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T09:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-has-become-flawed-democracy-under-trump-study\/"},"modified":"2018-02-02T10:52:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T09:52:33","slug":"presstv-us-has-become-flawed-democracy-under-trump-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-has-become-flawed-democracy-under-trump-study\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US has become \u2018flawed democracy\u2019 under Trump: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The United States is no longer considered a &#8220;full democracy&#8221; as a result of deteriorating freedoms and declining trust in public US institutions, according to an annual report by a British research firm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The US retained its position as a &#8220;flawed democracy&#8221; for the second consecutive year, due to &#8220;a further erosion of trust in government and elected officials,&#8221; the Economist Intelligence Unit said in a report.<\/p>\n<p>The report\u2019s annual Democracy Index showed the US ranking 21st in 2017, the same as the previous year and tying with Italy.<\/p>\n<p>The group had demoted the US in 2016 from a &#8220;full&#8221; to &#8220;flawed&#8221; democracy, citing a &#8220;serious decline&#8221; in public trust in American institutions.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, the United States didn&#8217;t fare any better, retaining its same rank and score.<\/p>\n<p>The index is based on five categories: electoral process and pluralism, civil liberties, the functioning of government, political participation, and political culture.<\/p>\n<p>The report&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/02\/02\/551002\/US-Trump-flawed-democracy-Economist-Intelligence-Unit\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is no longer considered a &#8220;full democracy&#8221; as a result of deteriorating freedoms and declining trust in public US institutions, according to an annual report by a British research firm. The US retained its position as a &#8220;flawed democracy&#8221; for the second consecutive year, due to &#8220;a further erosion of trust in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-346481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}