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Cambodia ranks 105 among 167 countries in a new Democracy Index. The index was developed by the Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU), the business information arm of The Economist Group, publisher of The Economist, a weekly British newspaper.
The Democracy Index, which is available in The Economist's annual publication The World in 2007, grades 167 countries out of 192 independent states according to their degree of democracy.
The index looks at 60 indicators across the five categories of electoral process and pluralism, civil liberties, the functioning of government, political participation, and political culture.
Countries are spread across four regime types: full democracies (28 countries), flawed democracies (54), hybrid regimes (30) and authoritarian regimes (55).
Earning the classification of "Hybrid regime," Cambodia's ranking barely places it within armlength from countries classified as "Authoritarian regimes" which include such countries as China, Vietnam, Laos and North Korea.
The Democracy Index, which is available in The Economist's annual publication The World in 2007, grades 167 countries out of 192 independent states according to their degree of democracy.
The index looks at 60 indicators across the five categories of electoral process and pluralism, civil liberties, the functioning of government, political participation, and political culture.
Countries are spread across four regime types: full democracies (28 countries), flawed democracies (54), hybrid regimes (30) and authoritarian regimes (55).
Earning the classification of "Hybrid regime," Cambodia's ranking barely places it within armlength from countries classified as "Authoritarian regimes" which include such countries as China, Vietnam, Laos and North Korea.
1 comment:
Well, to me, every ideology (communism or democracy), like religions, is, by nature, meant to get to the same destination, that is to say, peace and harmony. It is the people that have - intentionally or unintentionally - practiced them wrongly.
So we should stop blaming political ideologies.
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