according to a site called democracymatrix there are 35 countries more democratic than the us
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
What is this score based on? I had a quick skim of their site but my eyes kinda glazed over, polsci isn’t my background. Can someone ELI5?