How to Measure Democracy

Students in my Democratization Course--

Here is an article in .pdf that describes various datasets used to measure regime type and democracy (you may have to press the button "begin manual download"). Note the many different conceptualizations of democracy and the strengths and weaknesses of each measure. We'll be talking about this paper in Wednesday's class.

[NOTE: You may need to access the article from a UA computer or through a proxy server via the library website. And to answer the next question, no, I currently have no idea of how to do that. Use the comments bar if you have problems loading the article, and hopefully, another classmate can help you out.]