Political context component of Press Freedom Index. Questions asked for political context component aim to evaluate:
the degree of support and respect for media autonomy vis-à-vis political pressure from the state or from other political actors;
the level of acceptance of a variety of journalistic approaches satisfying professional standards, including politically aligned approaches and independent approaches;
the degree of support for the media in their role of holding politicians and government to account in the public interest.
A subsidiary score ranging from 0 to 100 is calculated for each indicator. All of the subsidiary scores contribute equally to the global score. And within each indicator, all the questions and subquestions have equal weight.
Type of variable: Continuous
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