English to Persian (Farsi) Other Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.

Nevertheless, this index inconveniently does not cover the period before 2006. Indeed, the major Latin American or
Eastern European transitions are not covered by this index. This is why we will retain in our study another index
which is a synthetic democracy indicator (polity2) published since 1974 and which measures competitiveness and
openness in recruiting executives, executive control, regulation of and competition in political life. This index varies
between (-10) for highly authoritarian countries and 10 for highly democratic countries.