Peter Isackson (Fair Observer) | For the first time in over 150 years, The Economist is finding itself on the wrong side of history, or at least of the ideology of history it created and sold to the rest of the developed world.
The Economist Intelligence Unit has published the 11th edition of its ranking on the global state of democracy. Of 165 countries in the world, Spain is ranked 19th for the quality of its democracy. It is not bad given the political instability Spain is experiencing. Nor the open breach in confidence following the crisis between citizens and politicians and citizens and economic powers. Nor taking into account Spaniard’ s tendency to self-flagellation.