Democracy scale

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A democracy scale is a yardstick for measuring the democratic content of a political order.

The most important variants include above all more demanding scales, among them the Political Rights Scale developed by Freedom House , which primarily records the law and the constitutional reality of political participation of the adult population with far-reaching consequences, and the civil rights scale, which is based on asks the extent of civil rights and their constitutional reality. Measurements that highlight the degree of participation and the degree of competition in the party system are also important, as are Ted Robert Gurr's democracy and autocracy scales, which are based in particular on the structures of state organizations based on the US constitution .

Democracy scales often originate in the US and are shaped by the understanding of democracy established in US history. So that takes political participation is a high priority in the scales. A well-known democracy scale is the democracy index of the British magazine The Economist .

See also

• Democracy measurement
• Corruption index
• Vanhanen Index

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Manfred G. Schmidt : Dictionary of Politics (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 404). 2nd, completely revised and expanded edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-520-40402-8 , sv 'Demokratiekala'.
2. ^ Martin and Sylvia Greiffenhagen: Germany and civil society [1]

literature

• K. Jaggers / TR Gurr 1995: Transitions to Democracy. Tracking the Third Wave with Polity III Indicators of Democracy and Autocracy, in: Journal of Peace Research (32).