Study Veenhoven (2005): study ZZ 1990

Public

Adults, general public, 67 nations, 1990s

Sample

Respondents

N = 100000

Non Response

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face

Correlate

Authors's Label

Political freedom

Our Classification

Remarks

Source: Karantnycky at al. (1995)

Operationalization

Index of suppression of political rights 1994-1995 (reversed)
Expert ratings on 9 item index of political rights: 1. State leader elected through free and fair elections, 2. Legislative representatives elected through free and fair elections, 3. Fair electoral laws, equal campaigning opportunities, fair polling and honest tabulation of ballots, 4. Freely elected representatives have real power, 5. Right to organize in political parties, system open to rise and fall of competing groups, 6. Realistic possibility for opposition, de facto opposition power, 7. National independence, 8. Influence of minority groups, 9. Political power decentralized.

Observed Relation with Happiness