index<\/a>\u00a0, which, on the basis of 60 indicators, assesses the political freedom on a scale of 1 to 10, has fallen most in recent years.\u00a0No improvement has taken place in any part of the world.<\/p>\nFour categories of countries<\/h3>\n
The Economist draws attention to increasingly divided societies in developed countries, as well as limiting freedom of speech.<\/p>\n
The index distinguishes four categories of countries: authoritarian regimes (index 1 to 4), hybrid regimes (ie those with elements of democracy and dictatorship, with an index of 4 to 6), democracy with mistakes (6-8) and full democracy (8-10 ).<\/p>\n
The Czech Republic belonged to the last category until 2013, but since then its rating has been steadily declining.<\/p>\n
Compared to 2016, it was down 0.2 points in the current issue.\u00a0With 7.62 points, it is ranked 34th out of 167 countries surveyed.\u00a0Still, Estonia has the second best result from the former Eastern Bloc countries.<\/p>\n
The best of all is the Czech Republic from the Visegrad Four countries.\u00a0Neighboring Slovakia attributed the list of authors with 7.16 points, Poland with 6.67 points and Hungary with 6.64 points.<\/p>\n
In the attached report, they mention inter alia the\u00a0controversial Polish judicial reform\u00a0and the political pressure of the Hungarian government on independent media.<\/p>\n
The best is Scandinavia<\/h3>\n
Sixty indicators divide The Economist into five categories: election process and pluralism, government functionality, political participation, political culture and civil rights.<\/p>\n
The Lead Top Rank has long been the Scandinavian countries.\u00a0This year, Norway, Iceland and Sweden are the first three, followed by New Zealand, Denmark, Ireland, Canada, Australia, Finland and Switzerland.\u00a0The index of democracy exceeding nine has only those ten countries.<\/p>\n
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