{"id":150067,"date":"2018-01-31T05:33:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T10:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=150067"},"modified":"2018-01-31T05:33:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T10:33:57","slug":"the-economist-ph-with-a-flawed-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/31\/the-economist-ph-with-a-flawed-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economist: PH with a \u2018flawed democracy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_149716\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-149716\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Philippines.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-149716\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Philippines.jpg\" alt=\"The Philippine government has now opened its call for Filipino curatorial proposal at the 58th Venice Art Biennale, the world\u2019s oldest and significant exhibition platform for contemporary art. (PIXABAY photo)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Philippines.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Philippines-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Philippines-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-149716\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It added, &#8220;Mr. Duterte has managed to make an already bad situation even worse for the media in the Philippines.&#8221; (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Philippines is a country with a \u2018flawed democracy\u2019 with a \u2018partly free\u2019 press, according to report published in a magazine based in the United States on Wednesday, January 31.<\/p>\n<p>According to an article by ABS-CBN, The Economist published a report on the importance of speech for advancing and strengthening democracy and examines the constraints on exercising freedom of expression around the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President, Rodrigo Duterte, has castigated journalists and even issued death threats. The country has a history of repression of the media and violence against journalists,\u201d the report read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Duterte has managed to make an already bad situation even worse for the media in the Philippines,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines, a democratic country, scored a 7 out of 10 this 2017. The country was under the \u201cpartly free\u201d classification, ranking 49 along with Bangladesh, South Korea, and India.<\/p>\n<p>Countries Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Sweden, and the US scored 10 in this category, classified as \u201cfully free.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On another category called \u201cflawed democracies,\u201d the Philippines scored 6.71 points ranking 51 among 67 countries, together with South Korea, US, Sri Lanka, and Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, the Philippines got a 6.94, and a 6.84 back in 2015 \u2013 a gradually increasing pattern significantly observed. The magazine report further said that there was a \u2018consolidation of power\u2019 in countries like Japan and China, including the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe indefinite declaration of martial law in the southern state of Mindanao in the Philippines, and the rule of country\u2019s strongman leader, Rodrigo Duterte, adversely affected the quality of democracy in the Philippines,\u201d the magazine wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, according to The Economist, \u201cMr. Duterte has led the way among the many Asian countries that are infringing democratic values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Norway topped the list with a score of 9.87.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippines is a country with a \u2018flawed democracy\u2019 with a \u2018partly free\u2019 press, according to report published in a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":149716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[343,2444,27877,406],"class_list":["post-150067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-philippines","tag-rodrigo-duterte","tag-the-economist","tag-united-states","mauthors-bea-kirstein-t-manalaysay","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}