{"id": 902094, "name": "Free and fair elections", "unit": "", "createdAt": "2024-05-21T22:16:11.000Z", "updatedAt": "2025-06-03T10:37:47.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "2005-2023", "datasetId": 6529, "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "electfreefair_bti", "catalogPath": "grapher/democracy/2024-05-21/bti/bti#electfreefair_bti", "descriptionShort": "Indicates the extent to which elections are free from irregularities, the rights to vote, run for office, and campaign are unrestricted, registration is easy, and campaigning and media access are fair.", "type": "int", "datasetName": "Bertelsmann Transformation Index, Scores", "updatePeriodDays": 365, "datasetVersion": "2024-05-21", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {}, "schemaVersion": 2, "presentation": {"topicTagsLinks": ["Democracy"]}, "descriptionKey": ["Score of 1: National elections, if held at all, are entirely unfree and unfair.", "Score of 4: General elections are held, but serious irregularities during voting process and ballot count occur. The rights to vote, campaign and run for office are restricted, and elections have de facto only limited influence over who governs.", "Score of 7: General, multi-party elections are held, conducted properly and accepted as the means of filling political posts. However, there are some constraints on the fairness of the elections with regard to registration, campaigning or media access.", "Score of 10: There are no constraints on free and fair elections.", "The remaining scores are intermediate categories."], "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 2005}, {"id": 2007}, {"id": 2009}, {"id": 2011}, {"id": 2013}, {"id": 2015}, {"id": 2017}, {"id": 2019}, {"id": 2021}, {"id": 2023}]}, "entities": {"values": [{"id": 15, "name": "Afghanistan", "code": "AFG"}, {"id": 16, "name": "Albania", "code": "ALB"}, {"id": 17, "name": "Algeria", "code": "DZA"}, {"id": 19, "name": "Angola", "code": "AGO"}, {"id": 21, "name": "Argentina", "code": "ARG"}, {"id": 22, "name": "Armenia", "code": "ARM"}, {"id": 25, "name": "Azerbaijan", "code": "AZE"}, {"id": 27, "name": "Bahrain", "code": "BHR"}, {"id": 28, "name": "Bangladesh", "code": "BGD"}, {"id": 30, "name": "Belarus", "code": "BLR"}, {"id": 32, "name": "Benin", "code": "BEN"}, {"id": 33, "name": "Bhutan", 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Successful processes of reform can be observed in every region of the globe. There are, however, no guarantees of success; many countries undergoing transformation face stagnation and power struggles or violence and even state failure. Good governance is pivotal to reform policies that work. What are the key decisions? What are the lessons to be learned from past experiences? What strategies are likely to succeed? Under which conditions? The BTI 2024 puts development and transformation policies to the test.\n\nAdvocating reforms aimed at supporting the development of a constitutional democracy and a socially responsible market economy, the BTI provides the framework for an exchange of good practices among agents of reform. The BTI publishes two rankings, the Status Index and the Governance Index, both of which are based on in-depth assessments of 137 countries. 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