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In 2016, the United States was downgraded from a full democracy to a flawed democracy; [9] its score, which had been declining for some years, crossed the threshold from 8.05 in 2015 to 7.98 in 2016. The report stated that this was caused by myriad factors dating back to at least the late 1960s which have eroded Americans' trust in governmental ...
Based on ranking results and their shifts, a Democracy Improvement Ranking is being carried out, with a full result release. The Democracy Improvement Ranking places the emphasis on increases or decreases of the ranking scores of democracies. Individual annual rankings of the Democracy Ranking are also published in separate book volumes. [17]
The Economist Democracy Index started the U.S. at the index's launch in 2006 at an 8.22/10 (full democracy) though the rating started declining in 2010 and dropped to its lowest rating yet of 7.85 in 2021 (flawed democracy [108]). [109]
It doesn’t seem controversial to say it feels as though today citizens of the United States are at a pivotal point in history. Democracy is in peril in America. We must not let 248 years of ...
Opinion: Democracy in America will only die if we let it. A recent point of contention in Pennsylvania was Gov. Josh Shapiro's unilateral decision to implement automatic voter registration in ...
Only about half of young Americans in a poll released Wednesday say democracy is the greatest form of government. A poll from The Economist/YouGov shows that among U.S. adults surveyed, support ...
US drops out of the top 20 in major corruption index for first time in seven years.
The state with the largest population in 1790 was Virginia with approximately 13 times as many residents as the smallest (Delaware). Today, "California, which consistently votes for liberal candidates statewide, "has 68 times as many residents as Wyoming; 53 times as many as Alaska; and at least 20 times as many as another 11 states".