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August 18, 2015

The long shadow of Stasi spying

Many countries monitor their citizens using secret surveillance systems. According to the Democracy Index 2012, published by the Economist Intelligence […]

authoritarian states
Democracy Index
economic performance
German Democratic Republic
government surveillance
Ministry for State Security
population decline
secret surveillance systems
social capital
spying
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Trust
unofficial collaborators

Andreas Lichter
Max Loeffler
Sebastian Siegloch