Norway topped the EIU's list of
full democracies last year, followed by Iceland, Sweden, New Zealand and Denmark; Canada and Ireland tied for sixth place.
Not exact matches
America's score fell to 7.98
last year from 8.05 in 2015, below the 8.00 threshold for a
full democracy, the EIU announced in a report on Wednesday.
Countries within the former soviet block are all in flawed
democracies categories, only the Czech Republic is very close to making it to
full democracy for
last year (2014).
MoveOn's Eli Pariser made a related point at the Personal
Democracy Forum conference
last month when talking about social media: he argued that they won't reach their
full potential until we can move past the «gotcha» mentality.