Why Countries Stay Free: The Map That Separates Democracies from Autocracies. Friday's Edition.
Why some countries become democracies and others do not. Series 26 #3
The Inglehart-Welzel cultural map is the most-cited image in cross-cultural research. It plots every country on two axes built from the World Values Survey, the longest-running measurement of national cultural perspectives in social science. Democracies cluster in one part of the map. Authoritarian states cluster elsewhere. The line between them is one …
