06 novembro 2014

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Good News: The World Is More Democratic Than Ever: According to empirical evidence gathered by Max Roser, an economist at Oxford University, the world is officially more democratic than ever before, with the majority of countries under democratic control.

In the short term, elections make society less happy overall: elections increase sadness for the losing side much more than they increase happiness for the winners.