Democracy and Dictatorship
3 important questions on Democracy and Dictatorship
Dahl was willing to drop the word democracy altogether and instead used the word polyarchy to describe:
A political regime with high levels of both contestation and inclusion.
Polity IV provides an annual measure of democracy and autocracy using Democracy and Autocracy scores, which for each country both range from 0 to 10. From these two measures, a Polity Score is constructed (Democracy Score minus Autocracy score). A country's polity score is based on five different attributes or dimensions:
- The competitiveness of executive recruitment
- The openness of executive recruitment
- The constraints that exist on the executive
- The regulation of political participation
- The competitiveness of political participation
Freedom House provides an annual measure of 'global freedom' for countries around the world. A country's Freedom House score is based on two dimensions that capture a country's level of:
- Political rights, covering:
- the electoral process
- political pluralism and participation
- the functioning of government
- Civil rights, covering:
- freedom of expression
- associational and organizational rights
- rule of law
- personal autonomy and individual rights
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