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Under
this project, we have created a dataset that consists of all the major
democracy measures over years. We are in the process of
producing a composite measurement of democracy by using all the
current available democracy indices.
As
for our special application of measuring China's democratic changes, besides the rankings
provided by organizations such as the Freedom House, we have four
main sources to build our own unique information databank:
1)
Statistics – statistical figures over time on some major
indicators have been collected.
2)
Web Information – effort has been made to follow discussion on some
important BBS
and Blogs to measure public opinion and to collect special
information.
3)
Experts Opinion – interviews will be conducted with about 20
leading China experts on a yearly or quarterly basis.
4)
Research Reports – various research reports on China’s democracy
have been collected and stored in our system for systematic and
scientific datamining.
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