The US-based Pew Research Center published a new report named Americans’ Dismal Views of the Nation’s Politics. The nationwide survey found that 65% of Americans say they always or often feel exhausted when thinking about politics. 89% were angry about politics these days, while only 10% were...
I have been meaning to start a thread like this for many years. I thought it might be too provocative, but I see how many Americans themselves are dissatisfied with their own country and the situation seems to be getting constantly worse. To many outside observers it has been clear for quite...
I have created 9 new maps based on the EU Commission's Eurobarometer poll results for Autumn 2019. I will compare them with other maps I made earlier.
Democracy
This map shows the percentage of the population that is satisfied with the way democracy works in their country at the moment (well...
Tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the street in Belarus after the rigged presidential election confirmed a renewed presidential term for dictator Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power since 1994.
BBC News: Belarus protests: 'We can breathe for the first time in our lives'
Six...
Adam Przeworski, a Polish-American professor of political science at New York University, has written several papers and books regarding the relationship between economic prosperity and the stability of democratic regimes. He was able to calculate the life expectancy of a democracy based on...
Do you think democracy works?
Lets take the UK 2010 elections. info
If we ignore the individual political parties but instead split the vote in a left wing / right wing way.
Right Wing
Conservatives - share of the vote 36.1%
Left Wing/Centre Left
Labour - share of the vote 29%
Lib dems -...
With the fall of dictators all over the Arab world, do you think Arab culture is capable of running a democracy?
Should western nations stop trying to empose their values and cultural templates onto people from different cultures?
With potential democratic revolution sweeping across the arab world is Gerorge W. Bush to thank?
Would any of this have been possible without the war in Iraq and the fall of Sadam Hussain?
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