Who would have thought that people are happy when their elected leaders listen and work for them rather than profits and oligarchs.
First-Past-The-Post is the single most stupid voting system that you can think about. It is a system that is specifically designed to create two powerful political parties that can rule, regardless of actual support.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger's_law
I’m not European but I lived in Europe. The United Kingdom is, without any doubt, one of the most flawed democracy in Europe. Water is fully privatized. Private water companies are overcharging people. University education is incredibly expensive. Going to University in France will only cost you $1000 in France. In Britain ? Multiply the price by 8 or 10. UK Labor rights are significantly weaker than France, Germany or Spain. Campaign finance rules in Britain are a joke compared to continental Europe. You can give $100,000 or $500,000 to any political party. In fact, Prime Minister Boris Johnson used to sell access to 10 downing street to his donors :
https://www.ft.com/content/8c6041ff-a223-43e9-9e45-53c3f7cf47f7
The masses and the UK Elite don’t even use the same accent. Believe me, I have never seen anything remotely close elsewhere.
As for the United States, it is a completely corrupt nation. The entire political system is for sale. Their presidential voting system is stuck in the 18th century. Their Senate is designed to empower small minorities. It’s an Oligarchy pretending to be a modern democracy.
Both the British Elites and the American Elites are too arrogant to reform. That’s the curse of Empire.
I hope Canada can reform it’s political system. Get rid of FPTP. Create two round elections or adopt PR. Ban political spending on foreign-owned media (Facebook). Ban foreign residents from donating to political parties. Why are american businessmen living in Canada legally allowed to donate?
Turns out the population is actually much happier with their country when the government is actually representative of the electorate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation is a necessary reading for every Canadian!
6-8 are proportional too (Netherlands, Norway and Luxembourg - the latter of which allows noncitizens to vote!).
9 is Switzerland which has a 2 round run off system + some direct democracy.
10 is Australia, a run-off system
11 and 12 are new Zealand and Costa Rica which are proportional
13 is Kuwait which has Single Non-Transferable Vote (like fptp but with multiple winners)
14 is austria, with another 2 round system.
Most of them also have compulsory voting.
The next electoral system that isn’t at least partially proportional or 2 round run off is the UK at 20. The southern facists are at 23, much higher than I expected to be honest.
Here’s the full ranking, they use a 3 year rolling average.
Gallup polling data from 143 countries for the past three years, specifically monitoring performance in six particular categories: gross domestic product per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom to make your own life choices, generosity of the general population, and perceptions of internal and external corruption levels.
In order to properly compare each country’s data, the researchers created a fictional country—christened Dystopia—filled with “the world’s least-happy people.” They then set Dystopia as the rock bottom value in each of the six categories and measured the scores of the real-world countries against this value.
