(From Economist.com) FREEDOM was in retreat across the world for the third straight year in 2008, according to an annual report published on Monday January 12th by Freedom House, an American think-tank. The report rates the freedom of each country according to measures of political rights and civil liberties. Freedom was curtailed in 34 countries, perhaps most notably in Afghanistan, where continued war and repression has pushed it from “partly free” to “not free”. A dozen countries in sub-Saharan Africa also saw some erosion of freedom. The number of electoral democracies, which has remained largely stable since the mid-1990s, fell by two to 119.
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Among the previous posts, you will see the analogy offered by a grad of this class that will help at least some of you think more clearly about the divides in political cultures around the world.
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