[governance] NY article expresses surprise at US walkout in Dubai

[McTim]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
> Michael,
>
> maybe you are right that a careful investigation would find that the
> correlation comes from the "democracy index" having been measured by
> means of checking for the presence of values and institutions which are
> e.g. more directly related to willingness to follow US leadership than
> to democracy itself. That in itself would be a significant insight, as
> it would point to a need for developing a better set of indicators for
> the quality of democratic structures.

read all about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index


>
> Another potential result could be that certain kinds of socioeconomic
> conditions make it hard to implement good governance systems of any
> kind (which would inevitably lead to low scores on the "democracy
> index") and that in such kinds of situations, "follow the kind of
> leadership that is currently offered by the US"

The USA is leading from the middle on this one, coming in at #19!

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel

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