{"id":4013,"date":"2018-11-25T21:27:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T21:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.davelevy.info\/?p=4013"},"modified":"2024-09-04T20:13:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T20:13:18","slug":"measuring-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/measuring-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Measuring Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Often one finds that people argue their solution is more democratic; how does one know? Some political scientists have looked at measuring democracyness, here’s what I have found.
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  1. Democracy continues its disturbing retreat<\/a>, the Economist in 2018<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. The Economist Intelligence Unit\u2019s index of democracy<\/a> by y Laza Kekic dated 2007<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. CONCEPTUALIZING AND MEASURING DEMOCRACY Evaluating Alternative Indices<\/a>, by MUNCK & VERKUILEN, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; see also hosted at sagepub.com<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Wikipedia on the Polity IV data series<\/a>, with a 5 point scale and ranking.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Democracy by Max Roser<\/a>, a chart based essay on its footprint on the world<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. I was pointed at the U. of Zurich\u2019s democracy barometer<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    In previous work, particularly, in commenting on the political discourse following Fidel Castro’s death<\/a>, I have used the World Bank Governance Index<\/a>. Actually I didn’t coz it didn’t say what I wanted. Ptui. 😊<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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