It took awhile, but I think I finally grasp which ways, and under which circumstances we measure democracy. It took until today, when professor owen did a probabiltiy exercise with us, to determine the probability percentges of democractic/non democractic states participating in coups. The data was complete bogus, because our 50/50 probability was based on coin flippage- but it got me  thinking how we conceptually see the process in which a + b= c in democracy.

Moreover, I took a look at a data result article where it measures how democracy causes differences in the economy. In other words, but looking at our economy we could measure and gauge the strength and weakness of democracy- and vice versa. It would be also helpful to measure the economy the highs and lows, and see how the different variationso economy could cause new party majority, new government, government coup etc. Overall testing how the economy hold up in a democracy- if a poor economy equals a less democractic state.

As previously stated, these data results, summerized in this article http://ias.sagepub.com/content/15/4/393.abstract

This study measures the debate whether democracy enhances growth or not,

Their hypothesis is based from methodological research

“democracy reduces economic growth is refuted by recent studies; second, the hypothesis that democracy has no effect on growth, although still widespread in the academic community, seems less plausible today than it did 10 or 20 years ago. Several recent studies show that democracy has positive effects on growth, although these effects are ‘indirect’ in the sense that democracy affects growth through, for example, enhancing human capital or strengthening the protection of property rights.”

As previously stated the two things being measured is the gauge of economic growth caused by different levels of democracy, a casual relationship