democratic democracy index, part 2
Crowdsourced democracy rankings, darker countries were voted as more democratic (Source: Xavier Marquez)
In an earlier post, I descried an effort by Xavier Marquez, a political science professor in New Zealand, to produce a crowdsourced democracy index of countries. Since then, he has had many more votes, some from readers of this blog. With all of this new data, he compared the crowdsourced rankings to the Freedom House rankings, a widely used source. He found:
The correlation between Freedom House and the crowdsourced index is a fairly high 0.84 (which is about as high as the correlation between the combined Freedom House score and the Polity2 score for 2008: 0.87).
You can read more about the results—there is lots of cool analysis—at Xavier’s blog: http://abandonedfootnotes.blogspot.com/2011/05/crowdsourcing-democracy-index-update.html
This might be the kind of thing that would be cool to do in different languages.
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