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It's difficult to take the report seriously when it's titled Revenge of the Deplorables.

That said, America's place in the Democracy Index been downgraded based solely on some people(?) losing trust in the government rather than actual hard data. Personally I think this is no more authoritative than a Facebook survey.

Their method deserves investigating though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index#Method

Example questions:

* "Whether national elections are free and fair";

* "The security of voters";

* "The influence of foreign powers on government";

* "The capability of the civil servants to implement policies".

This poll reeks of the same polls claiming 98% chance of Clinton winning the Presidential election, namely fudging it by sampling only folks with a certain political leaning.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/11/electio...