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India improves rank in democracy index; civil liberties curtailed: EIU

But India's political culture is worse than some sub-Saharan African nations, authoritarian regimes

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Sai Manish New Delhi
A white paper titled ‘Democracy Index 2016: Revenge Of The Deplorables published by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a sister concern of The Economist magazine has yet again termed India a flawed democracy. In the index published by the magazine, India is ranked 32 out 165 nations. The index, published annually by the newspaper, gauges the strength of a nation’s democracy on the basis of five parameters. (See Table 1). Last year India was ranked 35 on the same index.



These parameters include electoral processes,

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