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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 22 November 2024. Political science project ranking states by democraticity For overview of democracy indices, see Democracy indices. Number of nations 1800–2003 scoring 8 or higher on the Polity IV scale, a measure of democracy. World map showing findings from the Polity IV data series report for 2017 ...
Ecuador receives a rating of +9 in the polity scale of combined democracy/autocracy, while Peru receives a +7, meaning that both countries are classified as democratic, and Ecuador even as "very democratic". [29] However, the Peruvian democracy was less than one year old and the Ecuadorian less than 3 years.
Democracy indices are quantitative and comparative assessments of the state of democracy [1] for different countries according to various definitions of democracy. [2]The democracy indices differ in whether they are categorical, such as classifying countries into democracies, hybrid regimes, and autocracies, [3] [4] or continuous values. [5]
Treisman contrasts Freedom House's ranking with the Polity IV scale used by academics, in which Russia has a much better score. In 2018, the Polity IV scale scored the United Arab Emirates at -8, Russia at +4, and the United States at +8. [69] In May 2024, Russian authorities declared Freedom House an “undesirable organization”. [70]
The number of nations 1800–2003 scoring 8 or higher on Polity IV scale, another widely used measure of democracy [needs update] 20th-century transitions to liberal democracy have come in successive " waves of democracy ", variously resulting from wars, revolutions, decolonisation , and religious and economic circumstances. [ 125 ]
Map of the world published by Our World in Data in 2015, showing countries color-coded according to their regime type, which was based on their score in the Polity IV data set. Closed anocracies are shown in orange (scores between -5 and 0) and open anocracies are shown in yellow (scores between 1 and 5).
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