Based on five categories: electoral process and pluralism; civil liberties; the functioning of government; political participation; and political culture. The condition of having free and fair competitive elections, and satisfying related aspects of political freedom, is clearly the basic requirement of all definitions.
I, like Ajox, live there and I also think it is pretty democratic: it's not perfect and I don't like our current prime minister and the fact that there are 2 christian party's in the government who think we all need an other parent, but I wouldn't know how to do better.
no actually i take that back, i do believe it, but I can't believe we're under America!
I think the system in the Netherlands is pretty damned democratic.
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