Fitzgibbon Survey of Scholarly Images

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RESULTS FROM THE 2005 SURVEY

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From this page you can link to tabular results from the 2005 Fitzgibbon Survey of Scholarly Images of Democracy in Latin America.  The 2005 Survey was conducted in November and December of 2005.  Eighty scholars of Latin America, most of them working in or retired from U.S. colleges and universities, participated in the study.  Some have participated for several waves of this survey.  For others, this was their first contribution.

 

Panelists rated each of the twenty larger republics of Latin America on fifteen different criteria (see the link to the left) using a five-point evaluation scale (where 1=very strong, 2=somewhat strong, 3=neither strong nor weak, 4=somewhat weak, and 5=very weak)..  The twenty republics, listed in the tables to which you can link below, are the same twenty countries used by Russell Fitzgibbon in the first survey in 1945.  For the 2000 poll Phil Kelly added thirteen newly-independent states of the Caribbean in an addendum to the poll that panelists were given the option to evaluate.  That option was repeated in 2005, but only fifteen respondents chose to rate the Caribbean countries, so no tallies of those ratings will be offered here.

2005 Rankings by Category (alphabetical order)

2005 Rankings by Category (rank order)

Rank Orders, 1945 to 2005

Chart of Mean Scores by Country for 2005