Measuring Democracy and the Quality of Democracy in a World-Wide Approach: Models and Indices of Democracy and the New Findings of the “Democracy Ranking”

David F. J. Campbell, Elias G. Carayannis, Thorsten D. Barth and George S. Campbell
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David F. J. Campbell: Faculty for Interdisciplinary Studies (IFF), Institute of Science Communication and Higher Education Research (WIHO),University of Klagenfurt, Vienna, Austria
Elias G. Carayannis: Department of Information Systems and Technology Management, The George Washington University, School of Business, Washington, DC, USA
Thorsten D. Barth: Vienna Democracy Ranking Association,Vienna, Austria
George S. Campbell: IBM Austria (retired),Vienna, Austria

International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development (IJSESD), 2013, vol. 4, issue 1, 1-16

Abstract: The central research question for this article is: How can democracy and the quality of democracy be measured globally and empirically? Certainly, democracy measurement represents a wider research field; however, this article wants to contribute to it by offering to the reader an introduction and by giving first views about the ideas of democracy measurement in a global comparison and world-wide approach. The article contrasts different approaches to the measurement of democracy, with a focus on three macro-models of democracy measurement as well as the democratic indices (indicators) that they apply specifically: Freedom House, Democracy Index and Democracy Ranking. All three initiatives want to measure a large number of democracies over a longer period of time. In conclusion, it could, at least implicitly, be argued for Freedom House: the higher the freedom evaluation of a country, the greater the chances are or the more there is an expectation of a tendency for an advanced quality of democracy.

Date: 2013
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