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PIERCARLO BONETTI

PIERCARLO BONETTI. HISTORY (1960s today). Polity 1 (Robert Ted Gurr ) Polity 3 [1994] (Robert Ted Gurr + Nils Petter Gleditsch ) Polity 98 [1998] (Ted Gurr + Political instability task force of the

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PIERCARLO BONETTI

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  1. PIERCARLO BONETTI

  2. HISTORY(1960s today) • Polity 1 (Robert Ted Gurr) • Polity 3 [1994] (Robert Ted Gurr + Nils PetterGleditsch) • Polity 98 [1998] (Ted Gurr + Political instability task force of the United States) • Polity 4 (prof. Monty G.Marshall + political instability task force of the U.S. + centre for systemic peace).

  3. PURPOSE It ranks the quality of institutions and, more broadly of 166 regimes from 1800 till nowadays. (annually updated).

  4. UNIQUENESS OF THE METHOD • The most widely used data resource for studying regimes. • It analyzes concomitant qualities of democratic and autocratic authorities. • It captures contemporaneously all kinds of regimes on a 21-points scale measuring the key qualities of: - Executive recruitment. - Constraint on executive dominance. - Political competition.

  5. RESULTS It produces a classification of all analyzed countries in 3 main categories: • -10 to -6 AUTOCRACIES • -5 to +5 ANOCRACIES • +6 to +10 DEMOCRACIES

  6. CRITICS • Criteria identifying democracy are said to be misleadingly too narrow. • It doesn’t take into account measure of civil liberties and human rights.

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