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Concepts of democracy turn out to be more demanding, the more they move from a mainly electoral democracy (emphasizing elections and political rights) to a liberal democracy (also encompassing civil liberties), and further extending to a liberal democracy of an advanced high quality. In that logic, the Democracy Ranking reflects and requires a ...
Supermajority support for Democratic presidential candidates is a pattern among Latino voters. [41] In a 2021 Gallup poll, 56% of Latinos identified with the Democratic party, and 26% said they were Republicans. [42] This Democratic support has been consistent throughout presidential elections.
The Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean can be compared [1] according to the different definitions of democracy. [2] The V-Dem Democracy indices considers the Latin American and Caribbean countries with the highest democracy scores in 2023 as Costa Rica, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Jamaica and countries with lowest democracy scores as Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela. [3]
In 2020, Taiwan was upgraded from flawed democracy to full democracy following judicial reforms, [14] and soared to 11th (8.94) position from its previous position at 33rd (7.73), surpassing Switzerland, which ranked 12th. Japan and South Korea were also upgraded again to a full democracy, while France and Portugal were once again relegated to ...
In addition to the general definition of Hispanophone, some groups in the Hispanic world make a distinction between Castilian-speaking [i] and Spanish-speaking, with the former term denoting the speakers of the Spanish language—also known as Castilian—and the latter the speakers of the Spanish or Hispanic languages (i.e. the languages of ...
“In many ways we've never had it so good, objectively speaking, and yet people are so unsatisfied,” said Matthias Matthijs, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C.
With almost 60 million native speakers and second language speakers, the United States now has the second-largest Spanish-speaking population in the world after Mexico. [38] Spanish is increasingly used alongside English nationwide in business and politics. Media in Spanish has also become influential outside of native Hispanophone circles.
A 2020 study, which used World Values Survey data, found that cultural conservatism was the ideological group most open to authoritarian governance within Western democracies. Within English-speaking Western democracies, "protection-based" attitudes combining cultural conservatism and leftist economic attitudes were the strongest predictor of ...