Los retos de medir la democracia: una revisión de los índices de democracia

Abstract

Democracy and democratising or autocratising trends are topics that have attracted interest in both academia and public opinion. The main quantitative tools for monitoring democracy have been democracy indices, which have scored and ranked democracies based on their attributes. However, since the emergence of the first indices in the 1970s, the reality of democracy in the world has changed, both in the international context in which democracies develop, as