CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Vaikutyte, Justina |
|---|---|
| Title | Democracy in the Age of Internet: Internet Freedom as an Early Warning Mechanism for Democracy Fluctuations |
| Summary | This thesis examines the relationship between the level of democracy, the quantity (the ratio of internet users in the country) and the quality (the internet freedom) of the internet in order to see how well the level of the internet penetration and internet freedom can predict the level of democracy. To analyze these complex relationships we have compiled a database from three different sources and performed a quantitative analysis using the data from the Polity IV project, Freedom House Freedom on the Net Reports and the World Bank development indicators. The results of the analysis suggest that that while the traditional measures of democracy such as the Polity IV can only capture relatively big changes in the level of democracy due to the limited number of categories in the scales of measurement, the internet freedom has a potential to predict minor democratic developments or declines before they are reflected by the conventional measures. |
| Supervisor | Howard, Philip N. |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/vaikutyte_justina.pdf |
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