{"id":41068,"date":"2018-02-16T11:25:11","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T11:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=41068"},"modified":"2018-02-16T11:25:11","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T11:25:11","slug":"global-democracy-index-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/global-democracy-index-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Democracy Index-2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question- What place has India got in the &#8216;Global Democracy Index 2017&#8217; issued by the Economist Intelligence Unit of the UK&#8217;s Media Institute &#8216;The Economist&#8217; Group?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) 32<sup>nd<\/sup><br \/>\n(b) 42<sup>nd<\/sup><br \/>\n(c) 30<sup>th<\/sup><br \/>\n(d) 53<sup>rd<\/sup><br \/>\n<strong>Answer: (b)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On January 31<sup>st<\/sup>, 2018, the &#8216;Global Democracy Index&#8217; was released by the Economist Intelligence Unit of the UK&#8217;s Media Institute &#8216;The Economist Group\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>This index, has been prepared on with groups of 60 signals in 165 independent countries and 2 regions (Territories), is based on the five scales &#8211; &#8216;Election Process and Pluralism&#8217;, &#8216;Freedom of citizens&#8217;, &#8216;System of Government&#8217;, &#8216;Political Participation&#8217; and &#8216;Political Culture&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>Norway topped the index.<\/li>\n<li>Iceland and Sweden remained second and third respectively.<\/li>\n<li>After this, New Zealand, Denmark, Ireland, Canada, Australia, Finland and Switzerland are among the top ten countries in the index.<\/li>\n<li>In the Global Democracy Index, India is ranked 42<sup>nd<\/sup> with 7.23 score.<\/li>\n<li>While last year, India was ranked 32<sup>nd<\/sup> with a score of 7.81 in this index.<\/li>\n<li>In the report, India has been included in the category of countries with defective democracies.<\/li>\n<li>In this year&#8217;s report, the freedom of the media has also been studied in different countries.<\/li>\n<li>According to the report the media in India is partly free.<\/li>\n<li>Accordingly, India has become, especially Chhattisgarh and Jammu and Kashmir, dangerous for the journalists.<\/li>\n<li>The administration has reduced the freedom of the media.<\/li>\n<li>Many newspapers have been closed and mobile internet services have been banned at a great deal.<\/li>\n<li>Many journalists have also been murdered in the year 2017.<\/li>\n<li>America, Japan, Italy, France, Israel Singapore and Hong Kong are also listed on the list of defective democracies.<\/li>\n<li>In the category of complete democracy, only 19 countries have been ranked.<\/li>\n<li>Pakistan 110<sup>th<\/sup>, Bangladesh 92th, Nepal 94th and Bhutan remained at the 99th place with the mixed arrangements.<\/li>\n<li>Countries like China, Myanmar, Russia and Vietnam are in the category of dictatorship system.<\/li>\n<li>North Korea is at the bottom 167th place and Syria is ranked 166th.<\/li>\n<li>The global index of democracy has dropped from 5.52 points in the year 2016 to 5.48 in 2017.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.livemint.com\/Politics\/SBf9tTUhoG29zuJ3rKrqoO\/India-slips-to-42nd-place-on-EIU-Democracy-Index-US-at-21st.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.livemint.com\/Politics\/SBf9tTUhoG29zuJ3rKrqoO\/India-slips-to-42nd-place-on-EIU-Democracy-Index-US-at-21st.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oneindia.com\/international\/democracy-index-2017-indias-rank-slips-to-42nd-place-2631869.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.oneindia.com\/international\/democracy-index-2017-indias-rank-slips-to-42nd-place-2631869.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/scroll.in\/latest\/867091\/india-slips-10-places-to-42-in-economist-intelligence-units-democracy-index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/scroll.in\/latest\/867091\/india-slips-10-places-to-42-in-economist-intelligence-units-democracy-index<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.in\/these-are-the-best-democracies-in-the-world-and-the-us-barely-makes-the-list\/articleshow\/62717130.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.businessinsider.in\/these-are-the-best-democracies-in-the-world-and-the-us-barely-makes-the-list\/articleshow\/62717130.cms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question- What place has India got in the &#8216;Global Democracy Index 2017&#8217; issued by the Economist Intelligence Unit of the UK&#8217;s Media Institute &#8216;The Economist&#8217; Group? (a) 32nd (b) 42nd (c) 30th (d) 53rd Answer: (b) Related Facts: On January 31st, 2018, the &#8216;Global Democracy Index&#8217; was released by the Economist Intelligence Unit of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[2529],"class_list":["post-41068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne","tag-international-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}