section_path: Measurement of democracy/Democracy indices
section_name: Democracy indices
paragraph_text: Democracy indices
  
  Democracy indices are quantitative and comparative assessments of the state of democracy for different countries according to various definitions of democracy.
  
  The democracies indices differ in whether they are categorical, such as classifying countries into democracies, hybrid regimes, and autocracies, or continuous values. The qualitative nature of democracy indices enables data analytical approaches for studying causal mechanisms of regime transformation processes.