Economist – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Tue, 31 Jan 2017 01:56:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg Economist – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 The Economist’s Democracy Index https://www.maproomblog.com/2017/01/the-economists-democracy-index/ Tue, 31 Jan 2017 01:51:15 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=3803 More]]> The Economist (screenshot)

Here’s The Economist’s interactive map of their Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index. Its 2016 iteration, released last week, downgrades the United States to a “flawed democracy”—a drop from 8.05 to 7.98 in the index, where 8 is the threshold between flawed and full democracy. (While many developed countries score higher, not all do: France is at 7.92, and Belgium is at 7.77; Japan is practically tied at 7.99.)

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