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'Freedom in the World' is a yearly report by US-based think tank Freedom House that attempts to measure the degree of democracy and political freedom in every nation and significant disputed territories around the world, and which produces annual scores representing the levels of political rights and civil liberties in each state and territory, on a scale from 1 (most free) to 7 (least free). Depending on the ratings, the nations are then classified as ''Free'', ''Partly Free'', or ''Not Free''. The ratings in this table reflect findings based on global events from December 1, 2005 through December 31, 2006. Findings based on global events are used by researchers in order to measure democracy and correlates highly with several other measures of democracy like the Polity data series.[1] There is some debate over the neutrality of ''Freedom House'' and criticism of the methodology used for the FITW report - see the main article Freedom House.
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An asterisk (
★ ) indicates countries which are "electoral democracies". To qualify as an "electoral democracy", a state must have satisfied the following criteria:
#A competitive, multiparty political system;
#Universal adult suffrage for all citizens (with exceptions for restrictions that states may legitimately place on citizens as sanctions for criminal offenses);
#Regularly contested elections conducted in conditions of ballot secrecy, reasonable ballot security, and in the absence of massive voter fraud that yields results that are unrepresentative of the public will;
#Significant public access of major political parties to the electorate through the media and through generally open political campaigning
Freedom House's term "electoral democracy" differs from "liberal democracy" in that the latter also implies the presence of a substantial array of civil liberties. In the survey, all Free countries qualify as both electoral and liberal democracies. By contrast, some Partly Free countries qualify as electoral, but not liberal, democracies.[2]
Survey data and introductory essay are available online.
Detailed descriptions of all nations can be found online in Freedom in the World 2006. Note that this is one year earlier than the most recent descriptions which are not available online.
'PR' - Political Rights
'CL' - Civil Liberties
===Sub-Saharan Africa===
===Americas===
===Asia-Pacific===
===Central & Eastern Europe & the former Soviet Union===
★ Freedom House
★ List of indices of freedom
1. Casper, Gretchen, and Claudiu Tufis. 2003. “Correlation Versus Interchangeability: the Limited Robustness of Empirical Finding on Democracy Using Highly Correlated Data Sets.” Political Analysis 11: 196-203
2. http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=35&year=2005 Methodology, Freedom house
"Freedom in the World 2006", , , Freedom House, Freedom House//Rowman & Littlefield, 2007,
★ "Freedom in the World" - online at Freedom House
Map reflecting the findings of Freedom House's 2007 survey, concerning the state of international civil liberties in 2006.
'Freedom in the World' is a yearly report by US-based think tank Freedom House that attempts to measure the degree of democracy and political freedom in every nation and significant disputed territories around the world, and which produces annual scores representing the levels of political rights and civil liberties in each state and territory, on a scale from 1 (most free) to 7 (least free). Depending on the ratings, the nations are then classified as ''Free'', ''Partly Free'', or ''Not Free''. The ratings in this table reflect findings based on global events from December 1, 2005 through December 31, 2006. Findings based on global events are used by researchers in order to measure democracy and correlates highly with several other measures of democracy like the Polity data series.[1] There is some debate over the neutrality of ''Freedom House'' and criticism of the methodology used for the FITW report - see the main article Freedom House.
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| Contents |
| ''Freedom in the World 2007'' |
| Western Europe |
| Middle East & North Africa |
| Related/Disputed Territories |
| See also |
| Notes |
| References |
| External links |
''Freedom in the World 2007''
An asterisk (
★ ) indicates countries which are "electoral democracies". To qualify as an "electoral democracy", a state must have satisfied the following criteria:
#A competitive, multiparty political system;
#Universal adult suffrage for all citizens (with exceptions for restrictions that states may legitimately place on citizens as sanctions for criminal offenses);
#Regularly contested elections conducted in conditions of ballot secrecy, reasonable ballot security, and in the absence of massive voter fraud that yields results that are unrepresentative of the public will;
#Significant public access of major political parties to the electorate through the media and through generally open political campaigning
Freedom House's term "electoral democracy" differs from "liberal democracy" in that the latter also implies the presence of a substantial array of civil liberties. In the survey, all Free countries qualify as both electoral and liberal democracies. By contrast, some Partly Free countries qualify as electoral, but not liberal, democracies.[2]
Survey data and introductory essay are available online.
Detailed descriptions of all nations can be found online in Freedom in the World 2006. Note that this is one year earlier than the most recent descriptions which are not available online.
'PR' - Political Rights
'CL' - Civil Liberties
===Sub-Saharan Africa===
| Country | PR | CL | Status | Country | PR | CL | Status |
| 6 | 5 | Not Free | ★ | 3 | 4 | Partly Free | |
| ★ | 2 | 2 | Free | ★ | 4 | 3 | Partly Free |
| ★ | 2 | 2 | Free | ★ | 4 | 3 | Partly Free |
| 5 | 3 | Partly Free | ★ | 2 | 2 | Free | |
| ★ | 4 | 5 | Partly Free | 5 | 4 | Partly Free | |
| 6 | 6 | Not Free | ★ | 1 | 2 | Free | |
| ★ | 1 | 1 | Free | ★ | 3 | 4 | Partly Free |
| ★ | 5 | 4 | Partly Free | ★ | 2 | 2 | Free |
| 6 | 6 | Not Free | ★ | 3 | 3 | Partly Free | |
| ★ | 3 | 4 | Partly Free | 4 | 4 | Partly Free | |
| 6 | 5 | Not Free | 6 | 5 | Not Free | ||
| 5 | 6 | Not Free | ★ | 2 | 2 | Free | |
| 7 | 6 | Not Free | ★ | 2 | 3 | Free | |
| 5 | 5 | Partly Free | ★ | 3 | 3 | Partly Free | |
| 7 | 6 | Not Free | ★ | 4 | 3 | Partly Free | |
| 7 | 6 | Not Free | 7 | 7 | Not Free | ||
| 5 | 5 | Partly Free | ★ | 2 | 2 | Free | |
| 6 | 4 | Partly Free | 7 | 7 | Not Free | ||
| 5 | 4 | Partly Free | 7 | 5 | Not Free | ||
| ★ | 1 | 2 | Free | 4 | 3 | Partly Free | |
| 6 | 5 | Not Free | 6 | 5 | Not Free | ||
| ★ | 4 | 4 | Partly Free | 5 | 4 | Partly Free | |
| ★ | 3 | 3 | Partly Free | ★ | 3 | 4 | Partly Free |
| ★ | 2 | 3 | Free | 7 | 6 | Not Free |
===Americas===
===Asia-Pacific===
===Central & Eastern Europe & the former Soviet Union===
Western Europe
Middle East & North Africa
Related/Disputed Territories
See also
★ Freedom House
★ List of indices of freedom
Notes
1. Casper, Gretchen, and Claudiu Tufis. 2003. “Correlation Versus Interchangeability: the Limited Robustness of Empirical Finding on Democracy Using Highly Correlated Data Sets.” Political Analysis 11: 196-203
2. http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=35&year=2005 Methodology, Freedom house
References
"Freedom in the World 2006", , , Freedom House, Freedom House//Rowman & Littlefield, 2007,
External links
★ "Freedom in the World" - online at Freedom House
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