Reproducible unweighted mean of every non-missing country-year v2x_jucon observation in the official V-Dem Country-Year Core v15 dataset. Higher values indicate stronger judicial constraints; this is not a population-weighted welfare score.
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Higher is better — readings above the norm count as better.
Measured value over time. Its norm (0.80 index score (0-1)) is far off this scale, so the series stays worse than norm throughout — the deviation badge shows the gap.
Each driver linked to this indicator, strongest pull first, on the same timeline above. Markers are the facts that moved that driver. These are modelled influences — treat them as correlational unless a documented causal edge is shown.
External enforcement pressure (penalties, conditionality, judgments) can restore executive compliance with courts, raising judicial constraints, with a substantial lag.
Capturing courts and judicial-governance bodies is a primary mechanism of state capture, lowering judicial constraints on the executive.
Independent specialized prosecutors and courts that pursue corruption reinforce the judiciary's ability to constrain the executive.
Reproducible unweighted mean of every non-missing country-year v2x_jucon observation in the official V-Dem Country-Year Core v15 dataset. Higher values indicate stronger judicial constraints; this is not a population-weighted welfare score.
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