Draft:Democracy Barometer

The Democracy Barometer is an index aiming to measure the quality of democracy across countries using indicators grouped under the "principles" of freedom, control and equality, each with three "functions". Methodologically, it aims to use many indicators rather than a single expert score. Its codebook says the project collected about 300 possible indicators and selected about 98 for the index, aiming for a transparent, theory-driven measurement strategy.

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The latest version (7, dated 2020) was developed by the Centre for Democracy Aarau (ZDA) and the Department of Political Science (IPZ) at the University of Zurich (UZH) for comparative political research and provides downloadable data, codebooks, and documentation.^[1] As of April 2026^[update], this latest version of the Democracy Barometer dataset covers 53 countries and territories from 1990 to 2017. The countries and territories covered are:^[2]

The Democracy Barometer was developed by Daniel Bochsler, back then a researcher at the University of Zurich and the Centre for Democracy Studies Aarau (ZDA), in collaboration with Wolfgang Merkel of the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)^[3] a joint project between the WZB and ZDA (2009–13, 20013–17),^[3] as a split-off from the project Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR).^[4] Since 2018, the Centre for Democracy Aarau (ZDA) and the Department of Political Science (IPZ) at the University of Zurich (UZH) are responsible for the Democracy Barometer.