Measuring democracy

Tommy Krieger

No 22-063, ZEW Discussion Papers from ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research

Abstract: This short article contributes to the Elgar Encyclopedia of Public Choice by summarizing the literature on the measurement of democracy. I proceed in two step. In the first part, I describe the classical approach for producing a measure of democracy and sketch an alternative approach. The second part provides an overview about existing democracy index.

Keywords: Democracy; index numbers; measurement of democracy; political institutions; regime classification (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C43 O43 P00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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