A Fuzzy Approach to Evaluation of Democracy Index
Latafat A. Gardashova

Abstract
The present paper is devoted to evaluation of electoral democracy index by using fuzzy logic, non additive measure and Choquet integral. Many works have been done in the area of the evaluation of the democracy, during election. However these methods are not effective as they were based on statistical methods. That is why, the index itself as well as the basic factors of democracy i.e. Stateness, Corruption, Privatization, Multi-Party System, Public Administration, Judicial Independence, Decentralization, regime Type are informations that should be specified by perception, but not by numbers. Information determined by perception can be processed by more adequate methods e.g. by using fuzzy logic theory and Choquet integral. In this paper, a concrete models using fuzzy data is considered.

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