by Le Dong Hai Nguyen | May 7, 2022 | Politics, Preprint
Between 2013 and 2020, the Commonwealth of Australia has enjoyed the top spot as the strongest democracy in Asia according to the Democracy Index released annually by Freedom House. It dropped to second place in 2021 and then third in 2022, trailing behind New Zealand...
by Le Dong Hai Nguyen | May 6, 2022 | Politics, Preprint
Using the raw historical dataset available on the Freedom House website, we compute and rank the largest decline in the global freedom index from 2007 to 2022 (territories are excluded). For each year, we subtract its index from the prior year’s figure and...
by Le Dong Hai Nguyen | May 4, 2022 | Politics, Preprint
Between 2008 and 2019, the aggregate average of the democracy index for all Asia-Pacific countries as published by Freedom House saw a 2.67 points increase. During the same period, the world average saw a 2.76 points decrease. Freedom Index aggregate scores for the...
