Abstract
Witnessing the actual Trump presidency, one searches for conceptual tools to document US decline. The World Justice Project (WJP) comes to mind, attempting to measure Rule of Law (RL) comparatively. The WJP presents interesting findings for 2017-2020. Canada ranks higher than USA. Venezuela is bottom 128 country. Rationale of rule of law?
Highlights
Screening planet Earth ahead of 2021, one is forced to admit that we have dictatorship on all continents
Here we find semi democracy where government tends towards specific authoritarian measures (Russia)
The common core is the absence of rule of law
Summary
Screening planet Earth ahead of 2021, one is forced to admit that we have dictatorship on all continents. The Oxford English Dictionary offers the following entry: ―[t]he authority and influence of law in society, especially when viewed as a constraint on individual and institutional behavior; () the principle whereby all members of a society (including those in government) are considered subject to publicly disclosed legal codes and processes‖. This sounds rather complicated as well as somewhat legalistic: how to measure it in order to compare states?
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