Human Freedom Is Up, But Government Quality Is Deteriorating: New at Reason

Things are getting better despite the government.

Marian Tupy writes:

These are interesting times to be an American. The people’s trust in the U.S. institutions is plummeting and the outcome of the presidential election, however it ends, is unlikely to reverse that trend. Over at Human Progress, we have a whole section of the website devoted to “good governance” indicators. As you’ll see in the charts below, it is a mixed bag. People around the world appear to be growing freer, but their governments are getting less transparent and more corrupt. Could these diverging trends be the key to understanding of the people’s growing dissatisfaction with their ruling elites?

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