The Economist Intelligence Unit's Democracy Index says the U.S. is slipping in the flawed democracy category. Iowa serves as an example of why.
It’s coming up on 20 hours past the time the Iowa Caucus results were supposed to be revealed. Nobody knows who won, despite the vote ending last night at around 7pm local time. The failure to get this right is more than a silly inability to make an app work on the biggest day of the year in Iowa. Instead, it’s another example of why Americans distrust political institutions.
“If you look at the survey data, all of the major surveys and all of the big pollsters show all-time low trust in Congress and other political institutions, including the media,” says Joan Hoey, director for Europe at The Economist Intelligence Unit , and editor of their annual Democracy Index. Even though the U.S. shares the ‘flawed’ label with highly corrupt countries like Argentina, Colombia and Brazil, it’s overall score is better. Brazil is the worse of those three South American nations with an overall score of 6.86, for example, keeping it the flawed category.
People feel there is a “lack of political representation by the two main parties and that sense has grown in the last few years. That trend is now being mirrored in other parts of the world,” says Hoey.
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