Automated Democracy Scores

Thiago Marzagão

Brazilian Review of Econometrics, 2017, vol. 37, issue 1

Abstract: This papers uses natural language processing to create the first machine-coded democracy index, which I call Automated Democracy Scores (ADS). The ADS is based on 42 million news articles from 6,043 different sources and cover all indepen- dent countries in the 1993-2012 period. Unlike the democracy indices we have today the ADS is replicable and has standard errors small enough to actually distinguish between cases.

Date: 2017
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