Comparing Freedom House Democracy Scores to Alternative Indices and Testing for Political Bias: Are US Allies Rated as More Democratic by Freedom House?

Several scholars criticized the democratic evaluation of Freedom House for political bias. Does the United States really got wrong reputation with a stronger political relationship with the United States? In this paper, we examine whether the difference between many other democratic indices and FH ratings can systematically explain with the variables that record the relationship between the US and the surveyed country. In distinguishing the period before 1988 and the period after 1989, the previous term received consistent evidence strongly diverging the FH rating. At the latter stage, the estimate is not consistent, but it still suggests a political bias in the FH score.

Democracy and rights> Freedom of press: comparison of countries by freedom of press. The lower the score, the more free the country's news. These scores are from the Freedom of the Press Index, developed by Freedom House and referred to as "an independent regulator dedicated to expanding freedom worldwide". The data used in this index was obtained from an annual survey on the independence of media in 197 countries and regions and evaluates degrees of freedom of printing, broadcasting and the Internet in each country and region.

Several scholars criticized the democratic evaluation of Freedom House for political bias. Does the United States really got wrong reputation with a stronger political relationship with the United States? In this paper, we examine whether the difference between many other democratic indices and FH ratings can systematically explain with the variables that record the relationship between the US and the surveyed country. In distinguishing the period before 1988 and the period after 1989, the previous term received consistent evidence strongly diverging the FH rating. At the latter stage, the estimate is not consistent, but it still suggests a political bias in the FH score.

Comparative Democracy Score, Alternative Index and Political Prejudice Test of Freedom House: Is the Allied Forces Assessed More Democratic by Freedom House?

Freedom House ranks countries as "free", "partial freedom" or "not free" and evaluates the country's "political rights" and "civil liberties" to provide a range for each category We use scoring system to do. Score "The country and region are given two evaluations, political rights and civil liberties, based on their political rights and civil liberties, where 1 is the maximum degree of freedom, 7 is the minimum degree of freedom It corresponds to a specific total score range. "