As is so often the case in these sorts of "countries that function quite well", the Scandinavians aren't doing too badly: https://www.democracymatrix.com/ranki

As is so often the case in these sorts of "countries that function quite well", the Scandinavians aren't doing too badly: https://www.democracymatrix.com/ranking https://www.democracymatrix.com/ranking USA is #36, a "deficient democracy". Not a surprise and sadly I can see it only dropping further in the near future. The scale, interestingly, goes: - Working Democracy - Deficient Democracy - Hybrid Regime - Moderate Autocracy - Hard Autocracy Further details on methodology -> https://www.democracymatrix.com/conception/democracy-matrix https://www.democracymatrix.com/conception/democracy-matrix