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How can the national union democracy be measured
Ans- In the social sciences basically there are two general approaches to measure union democracy
In the first approach, measurements of wide range of features considered characteristic of democracy are used to construct a quantitative measure of democracy.
In the second approach, measurement focuses on a more limited concept of democracy, typically the characteristics of the electoral processes in a country, which is considered as measurement with high degree reliability.
Democracy can also measured by index produced by Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). The EIU index has five dimensions which measure the nature of electoral processes (e.g. free elections), functioning of government (e.g. checks and balances on government authority), political participation (e.g. voter turnout), democratic political culture (e.g. popular support for democracy) and civil liberties (e.g. a free press, independent judiciary) in a country. Each dimesnsion is measured and scaled properly to composite a scale varying from 0 to 10. Using this scale the proper judgement of democracy can be measured out.