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U.S. elections rank last among all Western democracies

Norris, Pippa
http://www.electoralintegrityproject.com/eip-blogs/2017/1/7/its-even-worse-than-the-news-about-north-carolina-american-elections-rank-last-among-all-western-democracies

Publisher:  Electoral Integrity Project
Date Written:  07/01/2019
Year Published:  2017  
Resource Type:  Article

Are US elections fair and democratic? A detailed look at the data and methodology that questions the integrity of elections.

Abstract: 

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Excerpt:

There is no independent and reliable measure of how U.S. states rank in terms of liberal democracy. But, moving beyond hearsay and anecdote, new evidence is available assessing the quality of elections. For this, Professor Reynolds drew on data from the Electoral Integrity Project (EIP), an independent academic project based at Harvard and Sydney Universities, which I direct....

Problems are not just confined to one state nor the 2016 election; as I published in a blog in the Monkey Cage in 29 March 2016, well before all the hullabaloo, the U.S. ranks 52nd out of 153 countries worldwide in the 2016 Perceptions of Electoral Integrity index, displaying the worst performance among equivalent Western democracies. As I said at the time: "By contrast, elections in many newer democracies are seen by experts to perform far better in the global comparison, such as in Lithuania (ranked 4th), Costa Rica (6th), and Slovenia (8th)."
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