Jak zmierzyć demokrację? Skale pomiaru demokracji politycznej stosowane w politologii porównawczej
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2011
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Wydział Nauk Politycznych i Dziennikarstwa UAM
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The author reviews and characterizes the most important scales for measuring the democracy
of political systems, applied in Western, mainly Anglo-Saxon, comparative political science.
He refers to his article published in a back issue of Przegl¹d Polityczny, where the
fundamental theoretical and methodological issues of democracy measuring were presented,
and tries to indicate how these issues are dealt with by various researchers whose scales and
data bases are most common and most frequently referred to in research into political comparative
studies. The paper describes S. Huntington’s analyses, the Freedom House scale, the
IDEA assessment of the quality of democracy, the EIU democracy index, Bollen’s scale, the
Political Regimes Project, the Polity Project, T. Vanhanen’s democracy index and the scale of
polyarchy by Coppedge and Reinicke.
As the author analyzes one scale and database after another, he tries to identify their
strengths and weaknesses, determine the most characteristic properties of each proposal, and
assess their applicability in comparative analyses, pointing to their potential benefits and the
threats of using them. In conclusion, he recommends caution in the selection of a scale to become
a foundation for potential analyses, while he acknowledges that this theoretical and
methodological tool is highly useful.
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Przegląd Politologiczny, 2011, nr 1, s. 121-137.