... of its democracy is not yet deep enough and is arguably not even complete in its consolidation. When putting the Freedom House rating system to use, the definition of consolidation democracy can become operationalized. Freedom House has ranked all independent countries from 1 (the best score) to 7 on civil liberties and political rights. With the two scores combined, the result is a scale that ... assigns countries a number from 2 to 14. Countries with scores from 2 to 5 I classify as democracies. Regimes with scores from 6 to 8 classify as semi-authoritarian. Countries with scores from ...

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... into academies. Academies were independent, state-funded schools that would have private sponsors (Ward & Eden 2009). Government believed this would inject resources and enthusiasm into the school which would raise levels of attainment. However, Gunter (2011) argues that the idea that a private sponsor could do ... much more opportunity to do well academically. The schools themselves, and therefore the Government, would then also become winners because it would mean that attainment in schools may rise which would lead to higher league scores. More recently, pupils were being encouraged ...

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