A liberal democracy is an electoral democracy plus:
…judicial and legislative constraints on the executive along with the protection of civil liberties and equality before the law.
Closed autocracies are defined as:
No multiparty elections for the executive; absence of fundamental democratic components such as freedom of expression, freedom of association, and free and fair elections.
They have more on their criteria here. But based on that criteria, it’s pretty hard to argue that the country that’s unabashedly responsible for the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and built the Great Firewall allows freedom of expression or freedom of association.
…judicial and legislative constraints on the executive along with the protection of civil liberties and equality before the law.
Pressing X really hard for some of them
No multiparty elections for the executive
Called it
absence of fundamental democratic components such as freedom of expression, freedom of association, and free and fair elections.
Obligatory question “for which class”, people acting for the working class power does not seem to have much of those freedoms in the many blue countries.
Also you lost me at Tiananmen square massacre, even your own western media debunked this one.
A liberal democracy is an electoral democracy plus:
Closed autocracies are defined as:
They have more on their criteria here. But based on that criteria, it’s pretty hard to argue that the country that’s unabashedly responsible for the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and built the Great Firewall allows freedom of expression or freedom of association.
Pressing X really hard for some of them
Called it
Obligatory question “for which class”, people acting for the working class power does not seem to have much of those freedoms in the many blue countries.
Also you lost me at Tiananmen square massacre, even your own western media debunked this one.