Base on the balance of the three political powers(the legislative, the executive, and the judiciary branch), mutual checks and balances, the fulfillment of general election, the degree of law enforcement, and the degree of popularization of civil society, these factors are used to measure the degree of comprehensive full democratization of a country. There are only three countries in the world that truly achieve full democracy in politics by law: USA, France and Taiwan, ROC!
Both the French President and the President of the Republic of China Taiwan are directly elected. That is, citizens directly vote to elect the president. The president of the United States is actually directly elected too, but there is one more step in the middle. Due to historical reasons, transportation was inconvenient in those years (250 years ago) and the United States was a united states system. Therefore, in the US presidential election, elections are first held in local states, and then the electoral representatives of each state (representing the voting results of their own states) go to the federal capital for the final vote. In fact, this is not much different from direct elections, but it is just an additional intermediate step! Election representatives can only vote according to the results of their own state, and there has never been anything against the will of the state.
Interestingly, there are only two Statues of Liberty in the world, one in the US and one in France. Taiwan is likely to be gifted a third one!
However, there is a problem in Taiwan. In terms of judicial independence, the courts are still not independent enough! Under normal circumstances, law enforcement is okay, but in extremely controversial circumstances, can it be fair and impartial? It remains to be seen!
Please keep working hard! Remember: Liberal democracy is not done once and for all, it requires everyone to work hard to maintain it all the time!
Note 1. (Other semi-democratic countries, such as all constitutional monarchies, countries where the parliament votes for the president and prime minister, countries where one party elects its own leader, and so on, those countries that do not directly elect a president, are not truly full democracies. , we will not analyze it here, you can find the answer yourself)
Note 2. (Any country that retains a monarch, no matter what political system it is, cannot be considered a full democracy! Although monarchs are only symbolic, they can sometimes cause unfair social phenomena and political instability!)