The Uses and Benefits of Political Law

• Author: Gregory Tardi
• Pages: 169-178

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The Uses and Benefits of Political Law

Comparison of Political Legal Systems

A number of private sector entities conduct yearly analyses of the

degree of Democracy in countries throughout the world, and chart

its advance or decline. Several intergovernmental organizations also

rate states according to their own appreciations of Democracy. In

line with the understanding of Democracy put forward here, each

of these studies takes a number of dierent governmental, insti-

tutional, and societal factors into consideration. Separately, organ-

izations more closely focused on electoral matters conduct timely

surveys based on the criteria described here relating to democracy.

Perusal of all of this documentation reveals that these organizations

base their analyses on the understanding that D/democracy and

its core component, the rule of law, are benef‌icial both to the state

involved and to its society.

e study of political law is focused exclusively on the extent,

degree, and quality of D/democracy, and on the rule of law in states

that live by this value. It does not extend to any of the other cri-

teria of analysis used by the aforementioned organizations. Even

with such a limited f‌ield, it is not only possible but also practical

to compare states based on their political legal systems alone. is