Political systems of the world

I'm conviced these models show more about the makers of the models than the models results.

maybe its because you are measuring two different things one- goverment systems and two- freedom index how much "freedom" a country gives isnt a govermnent system lol if you wanted wikipedia's "freedom" aroudn the world you can search it up yourself I but dont use the goverment systems chart lmao

Every capitalist nation is a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie

" Et Tu Brutus" Momento Mori

So according to this, USA would be a strong man/ dictatorship during the FDR stint?

Congrats on the 1m subs and epic hair.

JJ, you put north korea and turkey in the same category…

OMG finally someone brings up how functionally useless the classification systems are on Wikipedia LOL. Learned this the hard way when studying civil wars outside of America…

I think the focus is often put too much on "how the system is doing currently" and not "what the system allows."

To explain, I agree that practically all constitutional monarchies are currently behaving democratically. However, I don't generally consider the system itself very democratic as it still retains unjustified hereditary authority whether it's being executed or not. To give a specific example, in the UK the monarch has pretty wide reaching authority including the ability to dissolve and open parliament. The defense I always see is "this would be political suicide and the monarch would be stripped of the power if they tried." This isn't a satisfying answer IMO, leaving the door open to authoritarianism because you're convinced you'll just stop it when it happens is foolish.

Unexercised or not, a single person having the authority to overturn democracy makes a system undemocratic

I think there is a common misconception that the "system of government" ( republic, monarchy etc) is a synonym of political system (democracy, totalitarian)

You still put Turkey in the same category as North Korea, which I don't think is fitting. While they certainly share similarities, they're still worlds apart.

I love how this is one of the first jj videos where he’s getting universally panned in the comments on that specific Wikipedia point

The US is fast becoming a struggling democracy.

Why is Burkina Faso considered a struggling democracy as opposed to anything else?

I agree on the categories chosen and the variables taken into account. With that said it seems to me that some results do not correspond to the reality. South Africa has made progress but it's undoubtedly a more flawed democracy that any South American country (except Venezuela and Colombia). Both Brazil and Argentina have independent judicial branches, competitive political parties and an overall "western progressiveness" miles ahead of South Africa, India or Indonesia. Brazil and Argentina tend to do poorly in this rankings because of widespread political corruption, which is of course enormous, but it's something Spain, Italy and Greece suffer too.