There was an interesting and lengthy new post on the subject of ranked voting written by Rana Mitter and published at the Prospect Take a look at this excerpt:

One reason for Hong Kong’s crisis is a failure of leadership. The local government, an elite bureaucracy appointed by Beijing, has plenty of administrative experience but almost no political instinct, as the repeated attempts to force through the extradition bill in 2019 showed. Polling from the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies in December 2020 suggests that 62 per cent of respondents were dissatisfied with the Hong Kong government, with less than 16 per cent happy.

The last major electoral test of public opinion was the District Council elections of September 2019, in which pro-democracy candidates swept the board, winning 17 out of 18 councils. The Hong Kong government suspended the elections for the Legislative Council scheduled for September 2020, ostensibly because the pandemic would make proper campaigning too difficult.

Also see our section on World Democracy or our articles on Worldwide Corruption.