Study Veenhoven (2008b): study ZZ 1995

Public

Adults, general public, 98 nations, 2000s

Sample

Respondents

N = 150000

Non Response

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face

Correlate

Authors's Label

Political freedom

Our Classification

Remarks

Source: Freedom House (2005)

Operationalization

Expert rating on 9 items of political rights:
a) State leader elected through free and fair elections.
b) Legislative representatives elected through free and fair elections.
c) Fair electoral laws, equal campaigning opportunities, fair polling and honest tabulation of ballots.
d) Freely elected representatives have real power.
e) Right to organize in political parties, system open to rise and fall of competing groups.
f) Realisric possibility for opposition, de facto opposition power.
g) National independence.
h) Influence of minority groups.
i) Political power decentralized.

Index range 1-7, high scores meaning more suppression an less democracy. (Reversed here)

Observed Relation with Happiness