The data is coming from the world's largest democracy perception study, published by the Alliance of Democracies Foundation (a Danish-based non-profit organisation).
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Democracy means a government that serves the majority, and answers to them. Its most important measure lies the steady rise in people’s living standards. But perception matters too, do citizens believe their government works for them?
In the West, most don’t. And why would they? They watch their livelihoods shrink while oligarchs, the real rulers of capitalist regimes, gorge themselves on the exploitation of the working class. In China, people call their system democratic, because it is. They’ve witnessed the fastest improvement in living standards in human history. That’s not just democracy in theory. It’s democracy in practice.
And where is the scientific method in all that?
In all the numerous studies have been done over many decades that you could've easily googled. In fact, I even linked many of them here because unlike some people I actually source my claims.
I do, and I can guarantee you that it has fuck all to do with a single thing you've said in this thread.
🤣 Really? Even saying "how do you measure perception" has nothing to do with it? Are you sure?
You measure perception by doing surveys and asking questions. That's how social scientific studies are conducted. Thanks for further confirming you don't understand how scientific method works though.