Category Archives: Democracy Ratings

Freedom on the Net 2022 Ratings by Country

Posted on October 19, 2022 by Dennis SILVERMAN

Freedom on the Internet and in social media in 2021-22 shows that only 18% of global internet users are assessed as Free, 34% as Partly Free, and 37% as Not Free.  11% are in countries that were not assessed.  The … Continue reading →

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Democracy Survey Details of Countries of Current Concern

Posted on October 14, 2022 by Dennis SILVERMAN

We go back to the International Democracy Survey of 2022 and focus in more detail on countries of current concern to understand how they have entrapped and suppressed their populations to live in dictatorships. The first two components are the … Continue reading →

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The Healthy Democracy, Healthy People Initiative and California, Texas, Florida, and New York Ratings

Posted on September 1, 2022 by Dennis SILVERMAN

We present key graphs of the index showing the correlation between voting rights in the Healthy Democracy and Health Care in the Healthy People Initiative for all states, and then the health care rankings breakdown for the four most populous … Continue reading →

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The Slap Heard ‘Round the World, and US, Ukraine, and Nuclear Violence

Posted on March 28, 2022 by Dennis SILVERMAN

The Slap Heard ‘Round the World, and US, Ukraine, and Nuclear Violence I have retreated from further commenting on the Ukraine genocide because of the sadness of what is going on and the feeling and reality of helplessness to stop … Continue reading →

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The International Democracy Survey of 2022

Posted on March 2, 2022 by Dennis SILVERMAN

For most countries, there are few changes from the Survey of 2021, which we recently put up.  The 2022 survey includes events through 2021.  The 2022 Survey is at V-dem.org.  It is a compilation of ratings from 0 to 1 … Continue reading →

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The Democracy Index 2021 Summary

Posted on February 23, 2022 by Dennis SILVERMAN

The Democracy Index 2021 Summary This is produced yearly by The Economist Intelligence Unit, based on 60 indicators in 5 categories.  Each category is rated 0-10, and then the overall score is their average.  We focus on those by size … Continue reading →

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The International Democracy Survey of 2021

Posted on January 28, 2022 by Dennis SILVERMAN

The International Democracy Survey Evaluation of governments for 2021 shows continual decrease in Democratic ratings.  They use 3,500 scholars and country experts to evaluate 179 countries on hundreds of attributes.  The 2021 report is at V-Dem.org.  In general, the global … Continue reading →

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Summary of Freedom House 2021 Report for the World and the US

Posted on August 8, 2021 by Dennis SILVERMAN

Summary of Freedom House 2021 Report for the  World and US Freedom and Democracy. This is my own short summary.  They have excellent summary reports.   here is the longer one.  The website also allows you to follow countries individually by categories … Continue reading →

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The Nobel Peace Prize Should Not be Bought by Trump for Arming Dictators

Posted on September 12, 2020 by Dennis SILVERMAN

You Shouldn’t Win a Nobel Peace Prize for Selling Weapons of War to Dictators Three stories collided to make this article.   First, Trump is selling F35s, our most sophisticated fighter jets, to the UAE in order to get them … Continue reading →

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In International Democracy Survey, US Drops to 36th, and Only 70%.

Posted on August 5, 2020 by Dennis SILVERMAN

  We show the 2020 Democracy ratings of countries of current concern to the US.  The source of the ratings is the V-Dem Institute at V-dem.net.  We use data from Version 10 of April 2020.  The North American Regional Center … Continue reading →

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