Global Dissatisfaction With Democracy At A Record High, Research Says
Source: CNBC News
The world is unhappier with democracy than ever, new research has claimed. In a report published Wednesday, researchers from Cambridge University analyzed the political sentiment of more than 4 million people, using data from survey projects that covered 154 countries between 1995 and 2020.
The proportion of people who said they were dissatisfied with democracy over the last year hit 57.5%, according to the report, with researchers saying 2019 marked "the highest level of democratic discontent" on record.
Authors noted that over the last 25 years, the number of individuals dissatisfied with democratic politics around the world rose from a third to more than half. Shifts in satisfaction levels were often a response to "objective circumstances and events" such as economic shocks and corruption scandals, the report said. Following the financial crisis in 2008, for example, global dissatisfaction with the functioning of democracy jumped by around 6.5%.
Many large democracies, including the U.S., Australia, U.K. and Brazil, were now at their highest-ever level of dissatisfaction with democracy. According to the report, the U.S. in particular had seen a "dramatic and unexpected" decline in satisfaction with democracy...
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Surveys began in 1995 when more than 75% of Americans were satisfied with democracy. The 2008 financial crisis was the first large shock with decline in satisfaction continuing every year since then.
Currently less than 50% of Americans are content with democracy in the U.S., the first time on record that a majority of U.S. citizens were dissatisfied with the system of government.
"Such levels of democratic dissatisfaction would not be unusual elsewhere," the *University of Cambridge report said. "But for the United States, it marks an 'end of exceptionalism' -- a profound shift in America's view of itself, and therefore, of its place in the world."
But researchers noted that there was an "island of contentment" in Europe, with democracy satisfaction at all-time highs. Among the nations in that group were Denmark, Switzerland and Norway...
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- EIU, 2019 DEMOCRACY INDEX: *U.S. No. 25; 1st downgrade to 'Flawed Democracy' status from 'Full Democracy.'
https://www.eiu.com/topic/democracy-index
- More, Democracy Index
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index
- The survey warns democracy in many countries is in a "state of malaise" (BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/education-51281722
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Maybe it isn't a democracy anymore...
Maybe with a few having all the wealth..it isn't a democracy anymore...
Weren't these the circumstances that got a few monarchs and kings and queens heads removed from their bodies..1600s - 1700s?
Maybe we need to bring back the guillotine..shake few people up...
