GV922 Democracy by https://padlet.com/slee57/ckzm6b5csa3z en-us 2016-09-27 13:20:32 UTC 2026-02-12 02:32:52 UTC hello@padlet.com Team: Freedom House- slee57 https://padlet.com/slee57/ckzm6b5csa3z/wish/1516790318
Concept/DefinitionBased on Universal declaration of human rights - UN General Assembly 1948Legal rights aren’t enough - so measure on the ground realities and implementation  with a focus on individual rights 

Subcategories: 7 subcategories across two measures (Polit. Rights and Civ. Rights) (0 - 4)(lowest - greatest degree of freedom)

Data comes from last year assessment as a benchmark- making changes with real world developments. Essentially the data comes from the workers of FreedomHouse

Coding: Each question is marked 0-4
(40 max score)Political rights:- Electoral Process(3 questions) Political pluralism and participation(4 questions) Function of Government(3)(extra question on forced demographic change)
(60  max score)Civil liberties:- Freedom of Expression/belief(4) Association and ORganisational rights(3) Rule of Law(4) Personal Autonomy and individual rights(4)

The scores are aggregated into a table to produce a final result of (F)Free, (PF)Partially Free or (NF)Not Free 

195 Countries and 15 Territories (So pretty much everyone)
Began in 1950s as Balance Sheet of Freedom - Been updated several times since - Most recent upd
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]]> 2021-05-12 09:12:24 UTC https://padlet.com/slee57/ckzm6b5csa3z/wish/1516790318 Team: Vanhanen's Index of Democracy slee57 https://padlet.com/slee57/ckzm6b5csa3z/wish/1516793407 Concept/Definition:
- based on electoral participation and electoral competition
--> the two indicators of democratisation

Sub-categories:
- Definition of  a party
- Indirect elections and elections without parties
- Non-elected governments
- Dominant governmental institutions

Data source: electoral data e.g. Chronicle, of Parliamentary Elections, Keesing's Record of World Events, Elections Today. News from the International Foundation for Election System

Coding:

Aggregation process: (% of the adult population who voted in the elections) * (100 -
 % of the winning party's votes in a national election)/100.
scale is between 0 and 100. 100 being the maximum theoretically possible level of democracy.



Coverage: all countries of the world since 1810 (those that still exist and excluding very small states e.g. Monaco)

Final Index: high values if both indicators are high.

Validity and reliability: only uses observational data. 











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