{"id":739380,"date":"2022-07-11T05:49:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T05:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=248947"},"modified":"2022-07-11T05:49:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T05:49:44","slug":"on-democracy-metrics-the-us-lags-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/07\/11\/on-democracy-metrics-the-us-lags-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"On \u201cDemocracy\u201d Metrics, the US Lags Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boris Johnson, the United Kingdom&#8217;s scandal-saddled premier, is finally stepping down as leader of the Conservative Party &#8212; which, as British politics are structured, means he&#8217;s also stepping down as prime minister. In conjunction with America&#8217;s recent annual July 4th celebration of independence from the British monarchy as declared in 1776, it seems worth noting  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/07\/11\/on-democracy-metrics-the-us-lags-britain\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/07\/11\/on-democracy-metrics-the-us-lags-britain\/\">On &#8220;Democracy&#8221; Metrics, the US Lags Britain<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/07\/11\/on-democracy-metrics-the-us-lags-britain\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boris Johnson, the United Kingdom&#8217;s scandal-saddled premier, is finally stepping down as leader of the Conservative Party &#8212; which, as British politics are structured, means he&#8217;s also stepping down as prime minister. In conjunction wit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":739381,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739380\/revisions\/739381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}