VoteWorld Comparative

Parliamentary Roll-Call

Voting Reference File

Major Democracies by World Region
“Major Democracies”, defined as:
1) Freedom House Score on Political Rights in 2004 of either 1 or 2
2) Population in 2004 of more than 1 million

Americas	13	Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Peru, United States, Uruguay
Europe	26	Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Asia-Pacific	11	Australia, India, Israel, Japan, Mauritius, Mongolia, New Zealand, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand
Africa	8	Benin, Botswana, Ghana, Lesotho, Mali, Namibia, Senegal, South Africa
Total	58
Supranational Assemblies		European Parliament, United Nations General Assembly

Note: important semi-democratic countries that are excluded because of low political freedom scores in 2004 (FH score):

Bangladesh (4)	Nigeria (4)
Bolivia (3)	Papua New Guinea (3)
Colombia (4)	Paraguay (3)
Ecuador (3)*	Romania (3)
Gambia (4)	Russia (6)*
Georgia (3)	Serbia and Montenegro (3)
Guatemala (4)*	Sri Lanka (3)
Indonesia (3)	Trinidad and Tobago (3)
Kenya (3)	Tanzania (4)
Malaysia (4)	Turkey (3)
Malawi (4)	Ukraine (4)*
Mozambique (3)	Venezuela (3)
Nicaragua (3)*	Zambia (4)
Niger (3)

* cases were roll-call voting data have been collected