List of democracy indices
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Short description: Measures of democracy
This article contains a list of democracy indices produced by several non-governmental organizations that publish and maintain assessments of the state of democracy in the world, according to their own various definitions of the term.
Prominent democracy indices
- V-Dem Democracy indices by V-Dem Institute distinguishes between five high-level principles of democracy: electoral, liberal, participatory, deliberative, and egalitarian, and quantifies these principles.[1] The V-Dem Democracy indices include the Citizen-initiated component of direct popular vote index, which indicates the strength of direct democracy and the presidentialism index, which indicates higher concentration of political power in the hands of one individual.
- International IDEAs "Global State of Democracy Report" assesses democratic performance using different types of sources: expert surveys, standards-based coding by research groups and analysts, observational data and composite measures.[2]
- The Democracy Index, by the UK-based Economist Intelligence Unit, is an assessment of countries' democracy. Countries are rated as full democracies, flawed democracies, hybrid regimes, or authoritarian regimes. The index is based on five different categories measuring pluralism, civil liberties, and political culture.[3]
- The Polity data series contains annual information on regime authority characteristics and covers the years 1800–2018 based on competitiveness, openness, and level of participation, sponsored by the Political Instability Task Force (PITF).[4]
- Democracy-Dictatorship Index is a binary measure of democracy and dictatorship.
- The Gallagher index measures an electoral system's relative disproportionality between votes received and seats in a legislature.
- Effective number of parties is an index of the adjusted number of political parties in a country's party system.[5]
- Democracy Ranking is a democracy ranking by the Association for Development and Advancement of the Democracy Award.
Maps of indices
Democracy Index map in 2020 according to The Economist Intelligence Unit
Countries autocratizing (red) or democratizing (blue) substantially and significantly (2010–2020). Countries in grey are substantially unchanged.[6]
Democracies and dictatorships in 2008.[7]
Notes and references
- ↑ "Democracy Report 2022: Autocratization Changing Nature?", V-Dem Institute (University of Gothenburg), https://v-dem.net/media/publications/dr_2022.pdf
- ↑ "International IDEA". Dec 23, 2022. https://www.idea.int/.
- ↑ "Democracy Index 2021: the China challenge" (in en-GB). https://www.eiu.com/n/campaigns/democracy-index-2021/.
- ↑ "Polity IV Project". Table footnote. http://www.systemicpeace.org/polity/polity4.htm.
- ↑ Laakso, Markku; Taagepera, Rein (1979). ""Effective" Number of Parties: A Measure with Application to West Europe" (in en). Comparative Political Studies 12 (1): 3–27. doi:10.1177/001041407901200101. ISSN 0010-4140. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/703827nv.
- ↑ Nazifa Alizada, Rowan Cole, Lisa Gastaldi, Sandra Grahn, Sebastian Hellmeier, Palina Kolvani, Jean Lachapelle, Anna Lührmann, Seraphine F. Maerz, Shreeya Pillai, and Staffan I. Lindberg. 2021. Autocratization Turns Viral. Democracy Report 2021. University of Gothenburg: V-Dem Institute. https://www.v-dem.net/media/filer_public/74/8c/748c68ad-f224-4cd7-87f9-8794add5c60f/dr_2021_updated.pdf
- ↑ Cheibub, José Antonio; Gandhi, Jennifer; Vreeland, James Raymond (April 2010). "Democracy and dictatorship revisited". Public Choice 143 (1–2): 67–101. doi:10.1007/s11127-009-9491-2.
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