{"id":14219,"date":"2010-04-08T08:13:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T08:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/vulnerable-middle-performing-states-falter-on-democracy\/"},"modified":"2010-04-08T08:13:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T08:13:43","slug":"vulnerable-middle-performing-states-falter-on-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/freedom\/vulnerable-middle-performing-states-falter-on-democracy.php","title":{"rendered":"Vulnerable Middle Performing States Falter on Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

States occupying the political 'middle ground' confront increasingly difficult challenges in improving democratic governance, according to a new study released by Freedom House. In this year's Countries at the Crossroads assessment, declines exceeded improvements in both number and degree, with widespread efforts by governments cross-regionally to restrict freedom of expression and association in particular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

States occupying the political 'middle ground' confront increasingly difficult challenges in improving democratic governance, according to a new study released by Freedom House. In this year's Countries at the Crossroads assessment, declines exceeded improvements in both number and degree, with … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freedom"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}