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I once took a deep dive into the methodology of one of the custodians of "democracy rankings". It is one of the 2 most popular custodians.

Their methodology for each country was different.

For India their methodology was to survey 36 important people in the country. They did not disclose who these people were.

The survey asked them to share whether democracy was "backsliding" or whether it was becoming stronger, than the past.

> I once took a deep dive into the methodology of one of the custodians of "democracy rankings". It is one of the 2 most popular custodians.

Why not just say which it is? Are you trying to give your post a veneer of unbiased-ness while retaining plausible deniability?

It was one of the two: VDem, or Freedom House.

I don't remember with 100% surety which one it was. I think it was VDem.

The reason I called it a "deep dive" is because it took a huge amount of digging in their publications to find the specifics of the methodology.