File talk:Freedom House 2008 - electoral democracies, free, partially free and not-free countries.gif

Russia has a free government why is it maroon? it has elections and it is a democracy.

Even the wiki FOR the United States doesn't list it as a democracy. It isn't. That imagine should be changed a little.


 * China has elections and democracy, but its still not free. You have to study the history of the government's policies more. I'm pretty sure Vladmir Putin and his puppet controlling the government counts as "free". --haha169 (talk) 06:40, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

The difference is that (regardless of your view on Putin) the Russian's vote for their government. In China, they do not! Your not allowed to show any bias in wiki and as such Russia (For all techinical purposes) should be listed as free

If you lived in the real world you would realize Russia is not a free country... Danger is my Business (talk) 01:00, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

gif image looks horrible when resized down
someone please change it to PNG or SVG —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kami888 (talk • contribs) 19:32, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

this map is in logical error, is Turkey democratic or not?
If you zoom, you see in the map that, Istanbul belongs to the class of full democracy but Ankara belongs to the class of partial democracy. How can it be? These cities are on the same country, Turkey. (In fact, Eastern Thrace of Turkey belongs to the class of full democracy but Anatolia of Turkey belongs to the class of partial democracy!) Kavas(talk) 18:36, 27 February 2009  (UTC) Thanks for correction.Kavas (talk) 18:16, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

US
The U.s is a representational democracy which means we indirectly vote for our president and are unequally represented in our legislatures by senators and congress people, all in all this means the US should be according to the color coding light blue and not dark blue on the map. 03:49, 22 march 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fogle62 (talk • contribs) <!--Autosigned by SineBot--

Pakistan
Pakistan is a democracy? They elect their president83.108.234.180 (talk) 02:44, 4 July 2009 (UTC)