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The Czech Republic is a remarkable country. In the 2021 Democracy Index published by The Economist, the Czech Republic is ranked in 31st place, as a “flawed democracy,” behind 25th-place USA but ahead of 47th-place Slovakia. Among the 14 post-communist states of Central and Southeastern Europe plus Estonia, the Czech Republic is the second most urbanized (74.2% in 2021 vs. 76% in Bulgaria), the third least corrupt in 2020 (after Slovenia and Poland), and having the smallest proportion of persons below the poverty line, according to the latest Figs. (10.1% in 2018, with Slovakia in second place with 11.9%).
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I am grateful to Kristian Bernhof Ellinggard for downloading and organizing data from the 2017 European Values Study.
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Ramet, S.P. (2022). The Czech Republic: A Flawed Democracy – An Introduction. In: Ramet, S.P., Ðorđević, V., Hassenstab, C.M. (eds) Civic and Uncivic Values in the Czech Republic. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91225-3_1
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