A recent study calls Poland's democracy "flawed" and ranks it below that of Timor-Leste
The quality of Poland s democracy ranks fifth-lowest in the EU,foceng.com/chanel.html, above only Latvia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania, according to the latest Democracy Index, a regular report published by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
The index ranks 167 countries and their political systems based on five criteria: electoral process and pluralism, civil liberties, the functioning of government, political participation, and political culture. Source: Economist Intelligence Unit
Poland scored high in the first two categories: 9,Louis Vuitton Online.58 and 9,pilewu.com/truereligionjeans.html.12 respectively (out of 10 maximum points), but its score in the other categories dragged down its ranking.
Poland s score was especially low in the category of political culture, at 4.38,oakley sunglasses. It received a score of 6.11 in the political participation category and 6,oakley sunglasses outlet.43 in the functioning of government category.
Overall, Poland earned a score of 7.12, the same as last year, putting it in 44th place, tied with Brazil and behind countries such as Timor-Leste (43), Jamaica (39), and Costa Rica (22),louis vuitton purses.
With the exception of the Czech Republic (ranked 17th), which claimed a spot in the top full democracy tier of countries, all of Poland s EU peers in the Central and Eastern Europe region were also placed in the flawed democracy tier.
The study s authors blame the flawed state of democracies in the CEE region on the changes most of the countries had to implement to join the EU.
That transition has resulted in a large stratum of discontented voters who feel that they have lost out, the report reads.
Another problem in the region is that party politics is fragmented, primarily reflecting the shallow roots of many parties and low voter identification with parties,air jordon pas cher. Once [EU] accession was achieved, and politics reverted to natural antagonistic patterns, the underlying fragility of east-central European political systems was exposed.
Jacek Ciesnowski
From Warsaw Business Journal
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