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The Democracy Barometer is an index measuring the quality of democracy across countries using indicators grouped under the "principles" of freedom, control and equality, each with three "functions". Methodologically, it uses many indicators rather than a single expert score. Its codebook says the project collected about 300 possible indicators and selected about 98 for the index, aiming for a transparent, theory-driven measurement strategy.
It was developed by the Centre for Democracy Aarau (ZDA) and the Department of Political Science (IPZ) at the University of Zurich (UZH) for comparative political research and provides downloadable data, codebooks, and documentation.[1]
As of April 2026[update], the latest version of the Democracy Barometer dataset, version 7, dated 2020, covers 53 countries and territories from 1990 to 2017. The countries and territories covered are:[2]
- Albania
- Australia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- Chile
- Costa Rica
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Czechoslovakia
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- FR Yugoslavia
- 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
The Democracy Barometer was developed as a joint project between the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) and the Centre for Democracy Studies Aarau (ZDA) as a split-off from the project Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR).[3] Since 2018, the Centre for Democracy Aarau (ZDA) and the Department of Political Science (IPZ) at the University of Zurich (UZH) are responsible for the Democracy Barometer.
References
- ↑ "Democracy Barometer". Democracy Barometer. Retrieved 24 April 2026.
- ↑ "Data and Documentation". Democracy Barometer. Retrieved 24 April 2026.
- ↑ "NCCR Democracy (2005-2017), NCCR Directors: Hanspeter Kriesi (2005–2012), Daniel Kübler (2012–2017)". on the snf.ch web. Retrieved 24 April 2026.
External links
- democracybarometer.org, official website
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