countries that sore higher in terms of democracy, whats the catch?

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countries that sore higher in terms of democracy, whats the catch? - Blåhaj Lemmy

according to a site called democracymatrix [https://www.democracymatrix.com/ranking] there are 35 countries more democratic than the us ::: spoiler the countries - Denmark - Norway - Finland - Sweden - Germany - Switzerland - Netherlands - New Zealand - Belgium - Costa Rica - Spain - Luxembourg - Australia - Estonia - Iceland - Ireland - United Kingdom - Austria - France - South Korea - Lithuania - Italy - Portugal - Canada - Japan - Taiwan - Uruguay - Cyprus - Chile - Slovakia - Greece - Czech Republic - Latvia - Barbados - Israel ___ :::

I wouldn’t really call it a “catch”, but these kinds of indexes are heavily colored by the political persuasion of those creating the metrics by which the index judges. For instance, they judge various social inequalities as being a “worse democracy”, which you may or may not agree with.