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- Title
Transparência: a hierarquização dos países decorrente da opção democrática no índice da Freedom House.
- Authors
Silva Xavier, Vítor César
- Abstract
The West has propagated the idea that a democratic political regime is the best or even the only alternative for international society (Fukuyama, 1989). Concomitantly to the current appreciation of democracy, various institutions are proposing to disseminate and evaluate democracy in the world, including Freedom House. In this context, the present study proposes to evaluate the work method adopted by Freedom House, specifically from the transparency value and with the purpose of analyzing the adequacy of the measurement criteria used. The primary source of study will be the Freedom House official documents, in particular the methodological rules that subsidize the production of the report "Freedom in the World"; in parallel, doctrinal works on democracy and transparency will provide important conceptual references for the paper. Methodologically, the article will first conceptually discuss the democratic political regime and the expectancy of levels of transparency possible; then, with the analysis of the primary documents, it is necessary to identify the type of democracy adopted by Freedom House and, consequently, the breadth of the expected transparency. Finally, comparing the degree of transparency required by Freedom House with the plurality of democratic regimes that theoretically exist, the paper will try to demonstrate the inadequacy of the analytical criteria adopted by the institution in the measurement of democracy in the world, which consequently affects the rank presented in the Freedom in the World report. Therefore, there is an inadequate assessment of the transparency value in the Freedom House index, since it adopts the concept of liberal democracy, consciously concealing differences among those countries that actually disclose quantitatively and qualitatively more important information, such as those that adopt social democracy.
- Subjects
DEMOCRACY; TRANSPARENCY in government; CENTER for Religious Freedom (Washington, D.C.); POLITICAL systems; PRACTICAL politics
- Publication
Intersecoes: Revista de Estudios Interdisciplinares, 2019, Vol 21, Issue 2, p463
- ISSN
1517-6088
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12957/irei.2019.44213