Comments on: Political Freedom

By: amy

amy — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 03:43:47 +0000

When you look under the word freedom in the dictionary the last nation you find under it is israel they dont take into interest the civilians at all and are so quick to put the blame on everyone but themselves. I belive the only fair nation to this date that has respect for themselves and other nations around them is lebanon. PEACE be to all

By: Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » From the Jordanian Blogosphere

Sat, 26 Nov 2005 19:01:20 +0000

[...] y a very good status”, Haitham Sabbah reports to a published a research that reports the status of Political and democracy freedom in the Middle East, as well as a report [...]

By: Haitham

Haitham — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 09:56:21 +0000

So having a king, score 1, while elected president, score 10. So who is 2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and 9?

By: hale

hale — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 05:07:14 +0000

Haitham-

When they started constructing this index of freedom, EIU first listed 15 factors which each characterize one dimension of freedom. These 15 factors are:
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Election of head of government, Election of parliament,
Fairness of electoral laws, Right to organise political parties,
Power of elected representatives, Presence of an opposition,
Transparency, Minority participation, Level of corruption,
Freedom of assembly, Independence of the judiciary, Press freedom
Religious freedom. Rule of law, Property rights
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Then for each factor, they evaluated each country on a scale from 1=no freedom to 10=total freedom. Thus for the first factor, Election of head of government, , Morocco, having a KING would get a score of 1 whereas Algeria would get a score of 10, since thay supposedly elect their president. I don’t know how they scored such things as Transparency, which could be anywhere from 1 to 10!

When this was finished, they added the individual factor score for each country, and averaged them to get an overall score for that country.

Thus no country could have an freedom index lower than 1. This means to me that Libya is closer to the bottom than I thought.

One commenter said that they had reservations about Morocco. In fact, looking at all of these factors for Morocco, I think it is about right!

By: Nas

Nas — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 19:46:28 +0000

lol something is seriously wrong about this list. I have serious reservations about morocco and iraq.

By: Hamzeh

Hamzeh — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:37:43 +0000

I wonder how Israel manages to be at the top of any “freedom” list in the Middle East when it is depriving Palestinians from the basic freedoms in their own country, which is not Israel.

By: Global Voices Online

Global Voices Online — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:55:09 +0000

Political Freedom

Abdulhadi Khalaf (in Arabic) and Sabbah (in English) writes about political freedom in the Middle East, as ranked by Economist research and published by BBC Arabic (in Arabic).

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