Polity codes Qatar as more authoritarian than Hitler's Germany
"I prefer Freedom House scores to Polity scores because of the Polity dataset's odd bias against monarchies - and rentier states are disproportionately monarchies. The bias is found in the construction of the composite POLITY index. One point is deducted from the index if a country has a monarch who rules. Thus, only monarchies can receive the lowest score in the POLITY measure. Qatar in 1999 is scored as more authoritarian than Hitler's Germany, a bizarre result." (Herb, 2005, pg 308).
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