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Botswana Country Study
Status: Free
| Political Rights: 28/40 | Civil Liberties: 44/60
Botswana is Africa’s oldest continuous multiparty democracy, having held uninterrupted free elections since gaining independence in 1966.
Chile Country Study
Status: Free
| Political Rights: 38/40 | Civil Liberties: 56/60
Chile, a country that spans a long length of territory on the Pacific Coast of South America, is a unitary presidential republic.
Estonia Country Study
Status: Free
| Political Rights: 38/40 | Civil Liberties: 57/60
Estonia, among the world’s most free and economically dynamic countries, has a parliamentary system with a unicameral legislature.
France Country Study
Status: Free
| Political Rights: 38/40 | Civil Liberties: 51/60
France has a mixed presidential-parliamentary government. Its history encompasses periods of absolutism, revolution, empire, constitutional monarchy and republicanism.
Germany Country Study
Status: Free
| Political Rights: 39/40 | Civil Liberties: 54/60
The Federal Republic of Germany has a parliamentary democracy and a federal state, and has become one of the freer nations in the world.
Israel Country Study
Status: Free
| Political Rights: 34/40 | Civil Liberties: 40/60
Israel's multiparty system is highly diverse, including representation for minority populations. But in recent years Israel’s democracy has faced a range of challenges.
Netherlands Country Study
Status: Free
| Political Rights: 39/40 | Civil Liberties: 58/60
Netherlands is a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy with unitary structure.
Netherlands Country Study
Status: Free
| Political Rights: 39/40 | Civil Liberties: 58/60
The Netherlands has a long history of free media, free political debate, free and fair elections and pluralist political competition. That tradition continues.
Poland Country Study
Status: Free
| Political Rights: 33/40 | Civil Liberties: 47/60
Since 1989, Poland has been a free and sovereign country following more than two centuries of foreign domination, occupation, and control.
South Africa Country Study
Status: Free
| Political Rights: 33/40 | Civil Liberties: 46/60
South Africa is a constitutional republic and parliamentary democracy whose president is chosen by the National Assembly, the popularly elected lower house of a bicameral legislature.
United States of America Country Study
Status: Free
| Political Rights: 33/40 | Civil Liberties: 50/60
The United States is a constitutional republic with a presidential system. It is the world's oldest representative democracy among nation states.