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

[Norbert Bollow]

McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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

Thanks a lot for this link!

I've also read what they write about their methodology in the actual
report for 2011; it looks reasonable enough to me.

So unless someone points out flaws that I have missed, I'll dismiss the
possibility of the correlation with democracy not being real but an
artifact caused by invalid methodology in the determination of
"democracy".

The big question is of course what the causalities are...

Greetings,
Norbert


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