MEASURING DEMOCRACYPOLITICAL RIGHTSLIBERTIESIn studies on democracy and democratization, the Freedom House Index (FHI) is frequently used to measure the concept of polyarchy. This approach creates an often noticed discrepancy between the conceptual and measurement levels. The concept of polyarchy is ...
academic freedom- the freedom of teachers and students to express their ideas in school without religious or political or institutional restrictions freedom- the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints ...
1955. The elder of the Ngo Dinh brothers, Diem would overcome significant obstacles to bring independence and democracy to a young Vietnamese nation.Courtesy of the formerGovernment of the Republic of Vietnam.
Constitution requires federal, state, and local governments to provide “equal protection of the laws” to all people in their jurisdictions.[69] [70] [71] This means these governments have a measure of responsibility to protect the rights of all people from infringement by others, including ...
Inspired by a regular commenter I took a look again at Freedom House’s evaluations of various countries. Some might find it dry reading but I found it interesting. It’s unclear to me how one would go about comparing political and civil liberties in a s
Yet sometime over the course of the past 240-plus years that constitutional republic has been transformed into a military dictatorship disguised as a democracy. Unfortunately, most Americans seem relatively untroubled by the fact that our constitutional republic is being transformed into a military dict...
From this perspective, our measure of press freedom simply captures the effect of democratic institutions and is correlated too highly with our measure of democracy. Fig. 1 illustrates the association between press freedom and democracy. The solid reference lines denote the generally accepted thresholds...
How do worldwide governance indicators measure up? Freedom House A catalyst for freedom and democracy: 2007 annual report D. Giannone Political and ideological aspects in the measurement of democracy: The Freedom House case Democratization (2010) Amnesty International USA: Torture in black and white...
Our measure of economic freedom comes from the “Economic Freedom of the World (EFW)” index (Gwartney et al. 2019). This is the most widely used index of economic freedom and is generally considered to be the best because it covers all major aspects of economic freedom, uses data from ...
of not having to go to work.Individual freedom should be balanced against the rights of the community.Living without war is a fundamental freedom.Our freedom was threatened by press censorship.Publishers here enjoy comparative freedom to publish what they want.Teachers can exercise a measure of ...