Democracy Index 2020 released by Economist Intelligence Unit

Question of The Day10-02-2021

In the recently released Democracy Index 2020, India is placed under which of the following regimes?

Answer

Correct Answer : d ) Flawed Democracy

Explanation :

The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has released the Democracy index report 2020 titled “Democracy in sickness and in health?”. In Democracy Index 2020, India has ranked 53rd.

Norway has topped the index, followed by Iceland, Sweden, New Zealand and Canada.

The countries are classified into one of the four regimes based on their scores in the index. These four regimes are:

Full Democracy
Flawed Democracy
Hybrid Regime
Authoritarian Regime

India is placed under the ‘flawed democracy’ category.

Hence, (d) is the correct answer.

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