Cameroon vs Eswatini: Institutionalized autocracy

Cameroon
5
in 2011
Eswatini
9
in 2011
Cameroon rank
3rd
Eswatini rank
1st

Institutionalized autocracy over time

  • Cameroon
  • Eswatini
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How they compare

Eswatini currently reports 9 against 5 in Cameroon, a difference of 4.

That makes Eswatini's figure about 1.8 times Cameroon's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 44 shared years of data; in 1968 it was Cameroon ahead.

Cameroon ranks 3rd and Eswatini ranks 1st of 51 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Institutionalized autocracy
Source
Center for Systemic Peace, www.systemicpeace.org/polity/polity4.htm
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
51 places, 2,427 data points, 1960–2011
Last refreshed

Democracy is conceived as three essential, interdependent elements. One is the presence of institutions and procedures through which citizens can express effective preferences about alternative policies and leaders. Second is the existence of institutionalized constraints on the exercise of power by the executive. Third is the guarantee of civil liberties to all citizens in their daily lives and in acts of political participation. Other aspects of plural democracy, such as the rule of law, systems of checks and balances, freedom of the press, and so on are means to, or specific manifestations of, these general principles. We do not include coded data on civil liberties.