A Lexical Index of Electoral Democracy
A Lexical Index of Electoral Democracy
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选举民主的词汇索引
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2015
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Henrikas Bartusevičius
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Svend;J. Gerring;Henrikas Bartusevičius
近年来，集中于民主的定义和运作方面的工作蓬勃发展。其中一个争论是，衡量民主最好的方法是二元尺度还是分级尺度。二元指数的批评者指出，它们过于简单化，而辩护者则反驳说，分级措施的不同级别与一组特定的条件无关。在此背景下，我们建议将选举民主作为一系列有序排列的必要和充分条件来运作。由此产生的选举民主“词汇”指数部分基于新数据，涵盖了1800年至2013年世界上所有独立国家。它结合了子组件的二进制编码，这些子组件使用累积逻辑聚合成有序刻度。通过这种方式，我们得到了一个执行分类功能的索引——每个级别标识一个唯一的、理论上有意义的制度类型——以及一个判别功能。
Recent years have seen an efflorescence of work focused on the definition and operationalization of democracy. One debate concerns whether democracy is best measured by binary or graded scales. Critics of binary indices point out at that they are overly reductionist, while defenders counter that the different levels of graded measures are not associated with a specific set of conditions. Against this backdrop, we propose to operationalize electoral democracy as a series of necessary and sufficient conditions arrayed in an ordinal scale. The resulting “lexical” index of electoral democracy, based partly on new data, covers all independent countries of the world from 1800 to 2013. It incorporates binary coding of its subcomponents, which are aggregated into an ordinal scale using a cumulative logic. In this fashion, we arrive at an index that performs a classificatory function—each level identifies a unique and theoretically meaningful regime-type—as well as a discriminating function.