The German Research Foundation (DFG) funds the democracy matrix and has been operating since 2016. It is being conducted by the Chair of Comparative Politics and the German Government at the University of Würzburg. Researchers established it as an alternative to the Democracy Indices of Freedom House and Polity.
The Matrix groups countries based on their rankings into five categories: working democracy, deficient democracy, hybrid regime, moderate autocracy, and hard autocracy.
We will also look at the Freedom House indices and the Economist rankings and could provide our own to fit our political analysis.
Read more and look at country rankings here.