Such a “democracy index” would evaluate the ease with which voters can register, how long voters have to wait in line to vote, how many ballots are cast but not counted and similar considerations.

DEMOCRACY IS in retreat, according to the latest edition of the Democracy Index from our sister company, The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). This annual survey, which rates the state of ...

This, at least, is the portrait drawn by the State Democracy Index, developed by Jake Grumbach, a political scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, who has been measuring the strength ...