POLISCI 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Freedom House, Inter-Rater Reliability, Polity Data Series
13 Oct 2016
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~week 6: trajectories of european and u. s state formation~ Freedom house measure (releases ranking of whether regimes are democratic, non democratic, or neither) ***looked at freedom in the world 2016 map*** Us based ngo, receives funding from us gov (always ask who"s paying) Strongly correlated with other indices of democratization (a lot of inter-rater reliability. Scale from 1 (most free) to 7 (least free) Party free (3-5. 5)= consolidating (teleological assumption*) democracies. 86 countries are democracies, 59 countries are partly free, and 50 countries are authoritarian. Polity iv measure (measure does not have as much teleological tendencies) ***map depicts more variation than the freedom house measure map*** (they account for failed/occupied and not included states) Measures every country from 1800-present on a ten point democracy scale. Commonly used in political science, but not as widely used generally as. Measures autocratic characteristics as well as democratic ones.
