Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 days agoYou can look into their methodology. While it is an imperfect method, it does track pretty well when comparing countries to each other, as well as seeing which countries have more glaring weaknesses than others. It’s already widely reported that over 90% of people support the government in China, so this tracks pretty well.
jwt@programming.dev 2 days ago
I did, my opinion is that obviously that’s not a very smart way of conducting the questionnaire.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
It’s better in many ways than the standard western way of simply defining democracy by whatever the Nordics are doing, and then ranking everyone else accordingly. China has a very different democratic model than western countries, and so usually fails a lot of checks that are only checking for norms within western style democracies. This ranking helps take into account differences in model towards more socialist democracy by checking how the people feel.
jwt@programming.dev 2 days ago
I’m not comparing it to anything, I’m judging it at face value, and it doesn’t pass the smell test. It leads to countries with a one-party system getting scored +5 on pluralism. That ‘does not track’.
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
“Smell test” just say vibes dumbass
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
China, for example, has 8 parties in addition to the CPC, and has many different administrative divisions. It isn’t the same kind of pluralism as found in western countries, so it’s difficult to compare one to one. Investigating how the question was asked will reveal a lot more about how it is interpreted by the people of China.