Every year, this is by far the most interesting study on democracy because it doesn’t rely on the opinion of “experts” but on people’s actual perceptions. 每年，這是迄今為止最有趣的民主研究，因為它不依賴於“專家”的意見，而是依賴於人們的實際看法 by R. Bertrand

As such the results are often surprising and it raises profound questions of what democracy actually is. US is below HK at 24. China is number 1.

因此，結果往往令人驚訝，並引發了關於民主到底是什麼的深刻問題。美國排名第 24，低於香港。中國排名第一。