For my empirical analysis of democratic regimes, I chose to focus on Post Soviet Europe.
Post-Soviet Europe
Belarus
Bulgaria
Moldova
Romania
Russia
Ukraine
I find these measures of democracy very interesting from a foreign policy perspective. I hope to find relationships between increasing levels of democracy and the existence of historical external pressure to democratize. I am also aware that several of these countries have had setbacks over time and i wish to see how these are reflected in the data. The various ‘colour revolutions’ will be interesting to witness from an empirical perspective and I wonder if the data captures the gravity of certain events.