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  2. ourworldindata.org

    Mar 7, 2024The project relies on evaluations by around 3,500 country experts and supplementary work by its researchers to assess political institutions and the protection of rights. The project is managed by the V-Dem Institute, based at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.
    • Political participation index

      Scored on a 0-10 scale, the Democracy Index is based on five categories: electoral process and pluralism, functioning of government, political participation, political culture, and civil liberties. Based on its scores on a range of indicators within these categories, each country is classified as one of four types of regime: "full democracy ...

    • Political civil liberties index

      Clarification: Political liberties are understood as freedom of association and freedom of expression. Among the set of civil liberties, these liberal rights are the most relevant for political competition and accountability. ... The project relies on evaluations by around 3,500 country experts and supplementary work by its researchers to ...

  3. ourworldindata.org

    May 22, 2024Scored on a 0-10 scale, the Democracy Index is based on five categories: electoral process and pluralism, functioning of government, political participation, political culture, and civil liberties. Based on its scores on a range of indicators within these categories, each country is classified as one of four types of regime: "full democracy ...
  4. ourworldindata.org

    May 13, 2024Identifies the political regime of a country using the Polity 5 data by the Center for Systemic Peace. It distinguishes between autocracies (score 0), anocracies (score 1), and democracies (score 2). ... Depending on the data, this can include standardizing country names and world region definitions, converting units, calculating derived ...
  5. ourworldindata.org

    May 16, 2024Based on the classification and estimates by Freedom House (2024). Free countries are understood here as political systems in which citizens have many political rights (free and fair elections, political pluralism and participation, functioning government) and civil liberties (freedoms of expression and association, rule of law, personal autonomy).
  6. ourworldindata.org

    May 21, 2024It ranges from countries with poor political participation (scores of 1 to 2.49), over flawed political participation (scores of 2.5 to 4.49), fair political participation (scores of 4.5 to 6.49), and sound political participation (scores of 6.5 to 8.49), to countries with excellent political participation (scores of 8.5 to 10).
  7. ourworldindata.org

    May 13, 2024For example, country X has a POLITY score of -7 in 1957, followed by three years of -88 and, finally, a score of +5 in 1961. The change (+12) would be prorated over the intervening three years at a rate of per year, so that the converted scores would be as follows: 1957 -7; 1958 -4; 1959 -1; 1960 +2; and 1961 +5.
  8. ourworldindata.org

    What you should know about this data. In this chart, we identify the political systems of countries with the Regimes of the World data by political scientists Anna Lührmann, Marcus Tannenberg, and Staffan Lindberg 4, published by the Varieties of Democracy project. 5; RoW distinguishes four types of political systems: closed autocracies, electoral autocracies, electoral democracies, and ...
  9. ourworldindata.org

    Mar 7, 2024Clarification: Political liberties are understood as freedom of association and freedom of expression. Among the set of civil liberties, these liberal rights are the most relevant for political competition and accountability. ... The project relies on evaluations by around 3,500 country experts and supplementary work by its researchers to ...
  10. ourworldindata.org

    May 13, 2024Based on the estimates and index by Polity 5 (2020), weighted by countries' populations. It captures the extent to which open, multi-party, and competitive elections choose a chief executive who faces comprehensive institutional constraints, and political participation is competitive. It ranges from -10 to 10 (fully democratic).
  11. ourworldindata.org

    Mar 7, 2024Indicator generated from democracy_omitteddata.This is the same measure as democracy, except it records an NA for countries occupied during an international war (e.g., the Netherlands 1940-44) or experiencing state collapse during a civil war (e.g., Lebanon 1976-89).The democracy variable instead fills in these years as continuations of the same regime type to avoid coding democratic ...
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