Democracy indices

Projects: shortened, linked to the Democracy Barometer page

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=== Projects === === Projects === The ''Democracy Barometer,''<ref>[https://democracybarometer.org/ democracybarometer.org]</ref>, of the [[Center for Democracy Aarau]] (ZDA) and the Department of Political Science at the [[University of Zurich]], measures the quality of (so far) some of the established democracies with comparative data on the principles of: * The ''[[Democracy Barometer]],''<ref>[https://democracybarometer.org/ democracybarometer.org]</ref>, of the [[Center for Democracy Aarau]] (ZDA) and the Department of Political Science at the [[University of Zurich]], measures the quality of (so far) some of the established democracies with comparative data on the principles of ''"freedom" (""individual liberties", "rule of law", "public sphere"), "control" ("competition", "mutual constraints", "governmental capability"), "equality" ("transparency", "participation", "representation"), lists the indicators used to calculate these principles and produces Country reports and additional materials (codebook, methodology). *freedom **individual liberties **rule of law **public sphere *control **competition **mutual constraints **governmental capability *equality **transparency **participation **representation
It also lists the indicators used to calculate these principles and produces Country reports and additional materials (codebook, methodology).
The so far (April 2026) latest, 7th, version of 2020 contains data for 53 countries from 1990 to 2017: Albania, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, FR Yugoslavia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay.<ref>[https://democracybarometer.org/data-and-documentation/ democracybarometer.org/data-and-documentation]</ref>
The Democracy Barometer was developed as a joint project between the [[Berlin Social Science Center]] (WZB) and the Center for Democracy Studies Aarau (ZDA) as a split-off from the project ''Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century'' of the [[Swiss National Center of Competence in Research]] ([[NCCR]]). Since 2018, the Center for Democracy Aarau (ZDA) and the Department of Political Science at the University of Zurich are responsible for the Democracy Barometer.

=== Indices measuring aspects of democracy === === Indices measuring aspects of democracy ===