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A new study shows American democracy is getting weaker. And not because of Trump.

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Every year, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the research arm of the company that publishes the Economist magazine, issues a report assessing the state of democracy in countries around the world. This year’s report, released on Wednesday morning, has a striking finding: The United States has, for the first time, been rated as a “flawed” rather than “full” democracy.

You’d think, given the timing, that the election of Donald Trump is the reason why. But that’s not it. The report is based on a quantitative metric, linked to survey data and policy, that doesn’t incorporate the election results.

Continue to vox.com article: http://www.vox.com/world/2017/1/25/14385728/economist-intelligence-unit-american-democracy-2016

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