very detailed measurement of democracy for 188 countries between 1981 and 2011. Application of the SVMDI highlights a …We present a novel approach for measuring democracy based on Support Vector Machines, a mathematical algorithm for … pattern recognition. The Support Vector Machines Democracy Index (SVMDI) is continuously on the 0-1-interval and enables a …

Against recent criticism, this article demonstrates that the Index of Effective Democracy (EDI) has scale properties … EDI deviates from all other indices of democracy in a perfectly intended way that incorporates substantiating qualities of … democracy which the other indices neglect. As a result, the EDI outperforms all other democracy indices in its associative …

government is correlated with happiness, however forms of democracy and government spending seem not. We further discuss three …

government is correlated with happiness, however forms of democracy and government spending seem not. We further discuss three …

We provide a comprehensive overview of the literature on the measurement of democracy and present an extensive update … conceptualization of the Machine Learning Index. Finally, we largely expand the data coverage by providing democracy indicators for 186 … improvements are particularly notable: First, we produce a continuous and a dichotomous version of the Machine Learning democracy …