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Measuring Democracy new technologies and methods to measure democracy
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this project, democracy is considered as a latent variable that can
be measured only by studying its indicators that are observable to
us. In other words, we cannot observe or measure democracy directly.
But, democracy’s indicators such as elections are observable and
can be measured directly. Therefore, in this project, we will build
a latent variable model to estimate democracy rating from its
indicators. f(measure | indicators) = f(measure) * f(indicator | measure) / f (indicators) Our democracy rating will take a 0~100 scale for this project, in order to be sensitive to any minor progress toward democracy. Therefore, for our special applications, some small amount of democratic progress can be reflected well in our 0-100 scale rating. A complete list of our indicators is available to our partners.
Click here for references on measuring democracy
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