Rules TBD.
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).
You can choose exploiters not the system. Western democracy is this
This should be improved with adding more countries, like Russia, then comparing with other important data, like freedom of expression, to be somehow relevant to any discussion
Yes, and after time on RedNote, I believe it's because of them simply believing what western media says about it, but since they're not also living in it, they don't get to also see the negatives.
Either you're misunderstanding this or I'm misunderstanding you. This is showing that people in China believe the PRC is very democratic and therefore they support it, not that they envy western "democracy". The Chinese people enjoy far more democracy than people in the imperial core.
OOOOOOH, yes, I misunderstood
Assuming this is a reasonable representation of public opinion in the two countries (and I don't yet have reason to assume otherwise, despite the neoliberal position of the founders of the institute commissioning the survey), I now think it would be interesting to see a breakdown, country by country, of the discrepancy between public perception of democracy and independent observers' ratings of democracy in those same countries.
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