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Norway fourth best democracy
Norway and the Nordic region are very highly ranked by the latest ratings from the Economist Intelligence Unit Index of Democracy.

The Netherlands and the Nordic countries took the top six places in the study, which considers 60 factors divided over five general categories; free and fair election process, civil liberties, functioning of government, political participation and political culture.

The study examined the state of democracy in 167 countries, with governments grouped in four categories, ranging from full democracies to authoritarian regimes.

Norway scored top marks of 10 in three categories, 9.64 in functioning government, and lost a higher ranking by only scoring 8.13 in political culture (factors like a lack of apathy and peaceful transfer of power).

The reports singled out the USA (17th) and Britain's (23rd) poor results, partly to blame on measures adopted to fight terrorism.

"The United States and Britain are near the bottom of the full democracy category, but for somewhat different reasons. America falls down on some aspects of governance and civil liberties. Despite low election turnouts, political participation in the United States is comparatively high," the report said.

"In Britain low political participation (the lowest in the developed world) is a major problem, and to a lesser extent, for now, so are eroding civil liberties," the report said.

The lowest scores on the scale of ten were seen in Myanmar (1.77), Togo (1.75), Chad (1.65), Central Africa (1.61) and North Korea (1.03).

Best functioning democracies
1. Sweden 9,88
2. Iceland 9,71
3. Netherlands 9.66
4. Norway 9,55
5. Denmark 9,52
6. Finland 9,25
7. Luxembourg 9,10
8. Australia 9,09
9. Canada 9.02
10. Switzerland 9.02

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/l...icle1543571.ece

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But we're still #1 as Most Indebted Nation! Yay!!!!!!

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General Election turnout in the UK was only 60% or so, last election (down from over 70% in the 90s). Local council elections have a lower turnout, but they don't count for that much, as a rule.

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Actually I thought it was amusing that Norway was crowing about being #4. I could see bragging about being in the top 3 on a list, but anything below that is rather pedestrian.

If they could learn to properly use decimal points rather than commas with numbers, they might have a chance to crow about being smart.

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You notice their all a bunch of fucking pinkoes? Communism-light socialists. And I wonder who put out this little piece of disinformational propaganda. Hmmm... Could it be... SATAN?!?

Get a room, comrade billgerat, and polish your dialectic until the blisters pop and you pass out. The universal healthcaremobile will be along shortly - if you measure time in ice ages. Speaking of ice ages, thank goodness all the global warming stopped this latest one, eh? People can survive a little heat better than they can tons of glacial ice skidding over them.

It's 0230 - did you expect rationality and restraint? heh

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all countries are communist except AMERICA!

FUCK YEAH!

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It sure seems that way, sometimes. Oh well - they'll come around.

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the pox on those godless commie scumbags!

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I'd rather the scales be lifted from their eyes.

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Originally posted by Cherry Yidaki
I'd rather the scales be lifted from their eyes.

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We have more PS3's than anyone else, so we win.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Cherry Yidaki
did you expect rationality

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Originally posted by billgerat
I never expect rationality from you....nor sanity.

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What's a pinkoe?

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