Stable Democracies Quiz

19/22 interesting quiz

Missed Costa RIca.

5 seconds to spare, almost forgot Denmark

germany is a bit controversial, east germany was a police state until the end soviet union collapsed

Congratulations to Costa Rica. While Wikipedia is an interesting choice for a source, it is hardly authoritative. I'm not sure that I would say Italy is "stable." They have gone through times where they changed governments more often than some people change underwear.

I guess Wikipedia has a differnt definition of Democracy that what I was taught in school. The UK, Norway, Belgium, Sweden, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Japan and (sort of) Canada are Contitutional Monarchies rather than republics (according to the CIA World Factbook).

They are not pure democratic republics, but in several cases they are representative democracies and I believe in all cases their governments are elected democratically. Stable, I believe, means that the government hasn't collapsed or been taken over (i.e. in a coup) by undemocratic means.

Cannot BELIEVE I forgot Canada. *headdesk*

Funny how Italy is considered a "stable" democracy, since they've had at least 60 different governments since WWII.

Agree with geoquizpro- unified Germany can't even claim to be a country back to 1950!

Got 'em all, with 1:30 left!

I would leave Germany in, would take Italy out

icazares - if you take out Italy, you should take out Belgium as it has recently had serious problem keeping a government in office in the past few years

switzerland - yeah i forgot that i'm stupid but israel? seriously - i had no idea and i'd never have guessed that

As I was mowing down the Scandinavian countries, I skipped Finland because I thought they were under the influence of the U.S.S.R. Apparently not.

Really a shocker to see how few countries have had any kind of history of democratically elected governments! Great quiz.

Vatican city has had a stable democracy since for ever no?

Vatican and democratic? Lol, this is a church state. God (or the cardinals) elect the great leader. In every case, world can't be too proud of only 25 (and some of them are still disputable)...

Um, a little less strict on the spelling of Australia man, I spelled Austrailia and missed it...

I think of stable as being under one domestically peaceful, democratically elected government. Which all of these countries did. Even Germany is really just a larger version of West Germany so I think it stays in too.