Talk:Polity data series

But what does "scoring an 8" even mean? I couldn't easily find anything on the Polity project site either. -- — Northgrove 23:32, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

This Graphic is in my opinion not very useful. The growth in democratic states is indeed growing like shown, but it gives the impression that all states are now democratic. Max numbers of states should be the real actual max number of states. This would show that 1/3 of the states score with 8 or more out of 10 points. Even more useful would be the average democracy, autocracy, and anocracy scores as seen in several scientific publications. Emile le reveil (talk) 15:37, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

My critical entry about the Polity data was changed to this, which is vaugue, and not too grammatical: "A paper discussing claiming problems with democracy rankings including Polity can be found here." So I'll have to revert it but I'll incorporate some of the changes.Giovanni33 (talk) 18:15, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

More correct description of paper. Removed "discussing".Ultramarine (talk) 04:33, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Why is it a -66, worse than North Korea? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.68.225.28 (talk) 23:12, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

That's not an "actual" score. It indicates an interruption for the polity. Jackninja5 (talk) 03:44, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

Canada, Australia, New Zealand

I dont know if its a joke of bad taste or what. These three countries in this article are incorrectly called full democracy. They are very far located from the middle ages and Europe, but they do have an imperialist European monarch against to all common sense of democracy of the 21st century. Countries where at least the case of Canada the English descendant people do less than 50 percent of the population and even in this segment of the population they are not very satisfied of having an European monarch in the American continent actually thats the main reason why their ancestors landed on the other side of the puddle. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.84.172.111 (talk) 09:18, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

2017 figures?

I see that someone has put in 2017 "updates" for the database, but where do the 2017 figures come from? The latest version of the database referenced in the article is from 2015. And in fact, the Polity IV Project database page (http://www.systemicpeace.org/polity/polity4.htm) says that version IV has been discontinued and a version V is "currently in development". So where are the 2017 figures coming from? Can we please link to the version V database, if it exists? --Hibernian (talk) 04:37, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

They came from here. While they are developing version V, they seem to still be using version IV for the time being. The Ninja5 Empire (Talk) 12:02, 2 June 2019 (UTC)

Full Democracy .vs. Democracy

This entry seems to be missing a definition/explanation of Full Democracy and Democracy. For example, why the difference between France and the UK? Why is the former a Democracy and the latter a Full Democracy?

46.227.49.108 (talk) 14:09, 5 August 2019 (UTC)