Experience with liberal democracy

Number of years the country was a liberal democracy since 1789. Based on the criteria of the classification by Lührmann et al. (2018) and the assessment by V-Dem’sexperts. Liberal democracies are understood here as political systems that hold meaningful, free and fair, and multi-party elections, and their citizens have furtherindividual rights, are equal before the law, and the legislative and the courts constrain the executive.