BUA 3345: International Business

This is an index developed by the Fund for Peace. It measures political stability by cohesion, economic, political, and social indicators.

Ranks all the countries of the world by the following indicators: number of security officers, homicide, incarceration, access to weapons, intensity of internal conflict, violent demonstrations, violent crime, political instability, political terror

The index of Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism measures perceptions of the likelihood that the government will be destabilized or overthrown by unconstitutional or violent means, including politically-motivated violence and terrorism. The index is an average of several other indexes from the Economist Intelligence Unit, the World Economic Forum, and the Political Risk Services, among others.

The Democracy Index published by the Economist Group is an index measuring the quality of democracy across the world. This quantitative and comparative assessment is centrally concerned with democratic rights and democratic institutions.

Freedom House was founded in 1941 to rally policymakers and a broadly isolationist American public around the fight against Nazi Germany, and to raise awareness of the fascist threat to American security and values. Freedom House rates people’s access to political rights and civil liberties in 208 countries and territories through its annual Freedom in the World report.

International IDEA launched the Global State of Democracy (GSoD) Initiative in 2016. This Initiative provides evidence-based, balanced analysis and data on the state and quality of democracy for 173 countries across the world.

V-Dem provides a multidimensional and disaggregated dataset that reflects the complexity of the concept of democracy as a system of rule that goes beyond the simple presence of elections. We distinguish between five high-level principles of democracy: electoral, liberal, participatory, deliberative, and egalitarian, and collect data to measure these principles. **Click on the English version of the Democracy Report 2025 and go to page 14 in that report for a list of all countries divided into four groups: Liberal Democracies, Electoral Democracies, Electoral Autocracies, Closed Autocracies.

Based in Paris, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is an independent non-governmental organization (NGO) with consultative status with the United Nations, UNESCO and other organizations. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) provides information about the media freedom situation worldwide. After checking and corroborating our information, RSF issues press releases every day about abuses against journalists and about the many different kinds of censorship. Reporters without Borders compiles the The World Press Freedom Index every year to evaluate the level of freedom available to the media in 180 countries.

RSF's World Press Freedom Index aims to compare the level of press freedom enjoyed by journalists and media in 180 countries and territories.

The Tax Foundation is the nation’s leading independent tax policy nonprofit. Since 1937, our principled research, insightful analysis, and engaged experts have improved lives through smarter tax policy.

The Tax Policy Center's Briefing Book provides comparisons of US taxes and their international counterparts. This resource includes data visualizations along with narrative explanations.

Provides a table with the latest tax rate figures for several countries including actual values, forecasts, statistics and historical data.

Chandler Institute on Good Governance
The CGGI is the most comprehensive index of effective national government in the world. It measures the capabilities and effectiveness of governments in 120 countries.