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1. The Democracy Index is based on five categories: electoral process and pluralism; civil liberties; the functioning of government; political participation; and political culture. Based on their scores on a range of indicators within these categories, each country is then itself categorized as one of four types of regime: “full democracies”; “flawed democracies”; “hybrid regimes”; and “authoritarian regimes”. 2. Categorization of country based on overall score (on scale of 0 to 10) 10≤Full Democracies≤8 8<Flawed Democracies≤6 6<Hybrid regime≤4 4<Authoritarian≤0.