Measuring Democracy in Mexico. Merits and Demerits of the Freedom House Index and Przeworski's Regime Classification

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - Methods, Research, grade: 2,67, Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH, language: English, abstract: This paper applies and discusses the merits and demerits of two different measures of democracy, the Freedom House Index and Przeworski’s regime classification, that is, the updated version by Cheibub et al. (2010), with regard to Mexico between 19...