The third wave of democratisation has been sweeping the world since the beginning of the 21st century, and with the expansion of internet applications and the spread of big data algorithms, the term 'democracy' has gradually moved from a definitional distinction to a new form of scientific measurement. A large number of scholars have become interested in measuring the extent of democracy, not only in what democracy is, but also in what constitutes a good democracy. In this paper, we attempt to construct a new index model for measuring the degree of democracy by statistically analysing the data from the World Values Survey, and explore its impact on the degree of democracy in terms of political confidence, political participation, political rights, civil liberties, the rule of law and the level of society.

Xu Wentao. The Re-exploration of Democracy Index. The Frontiers of Society, Science and Technology (2022) Vol. 4, Issue 11: 71-81. https://doi.org/10.25236/FSST.2022.041112.

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