Rival democracy measures disagree on classification for 38 percent of country-years.

Evidence

Overall, a striking 38 percent of the total number of observations (13,789) were discordant. Given the importance in many theoretical settings of transitional democracies these differences assume great relevance. — Gary Goertz, Social Science Concepts, 823

Categorization

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