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A comment on Australia’s status as an open democracy downgraded by The CIVICUS Monitor. Parent comment

Re:Australia’s status as an open democracy downgraded by The... by petermcneeley on Saturday December 07, 2019 @06:41AM (#21729757)
"democracy does not equal absence of civil unrest. Possibly even the opposite." This is next level thinking and reminds me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias#In_the_mil...
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Re:Australia’s status as an open democracy downgraded by The... by tpmx on Saturday December 07, 2019 @06:47AM (#21729777)
The index it's based on attempts to rank "civic spaces" - not levels of democracy.
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