{"id":29,"date":"2008-04-10T07:28:59","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T14:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kosovothanksyou.com\/news\/?p=29"},"modified":"2026-02-17T14:37:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:37:33","slug":"the-economist-intelligence-units-index-of-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kosovothanksyou.com\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"The Economist Intelligence Unit&#8217;s index of democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/markets\/rankings\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8908438\" target=\"_blank\">The Economist<\/a> last year published a study about democracies in 167 countries (2007). The Economist Index of Democracy focuses mainly on five categories: free and fair election process, civil liberties, functioning of government, political participation and political culture. According to the study almost half of the World&#8217;s countries can be considered democracies, but only 28 qualify as &#8220;full democracies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kosova has been formally recognized by 20 out of 28 &#8220;full democracy&#8221; countries.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/markets\/rankings\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8908438\" target=\"_blank\">The Economist Intelligence Unit&#8217;s index of democracy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist last year published a study about democracies in 167 countries (2007). The Economist Index of Democracy focuses mainly on five categories: free and fair election process, civil liberties, functioning of government, political participation and political culture. According to the study almost half of the World&#8217;s countries can be considered democracies, but only 28 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kosovothanksyou.com\/?p=29\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Economist Intelligence Unit&#8217;s index of democracy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kosovothanksyou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kosovothanksyou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kosovothanksyou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kosovothanksyou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kosovothanksyou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kosovothanksyou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006,"href":"http:\/\/www.kosovothanksyou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/1006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kosovothanksyou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kosovothanksyou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kosovothanksyou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}