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Judicial Constraints on the Executive Index, 1990

1990, as V-Dem Institute’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

V-Dem's Judicial Constraints on the Executive Index asks whether a government respects the constitution, obeys court rulings, and faces judges — at the highest court and below — who decide independently of it. It runs from 0 to 1, and a higher figure means the executive is more firmly bound by the courts.

Judicial Constraints on the Executive Index, 1990 covers 166 countries. Australia is highest, at 0.990; North Korea is lowest, at 0.004. The middle country reads 0.571.

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Judicial Constraints on the Executive Index · Data for 1990

HighestAustralia

0.990

LowestNorth Korea

0.004

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Judicial Constraints on the Executive Index, 1990, as published. V-Dem Institute ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 166 countries · select a heading to sort

Judicial Constraints on the Executive Index, 1990: every country, as published by V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg.
derived
1AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand0.990
2DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe0.988
3SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe0.987
4NorwayNORNorthern Europe0.984
5New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand0.974
6SwedenSWENorthern Europe0.973
=7FinlandFINNorthern Europe0.968
=7SpainESPSouthern Europe0.968
9Costa RicaCRICentral America0.966
10PolandPOLEastern Europe0.960
11PortugalPRTSouthern Europe0.953
12GermanyDEUWestern Europe0.952
13NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe0.949
=14FranceFRAWestern Europe0.945
=14IrelandIRLNorthern Europe0.945
16United StatesUSANorthern America0.944
17IcelandISLNorthern Europe0.942
18EstoniaESTNorthern Europe0.939
19CanadaCANNorthern America0.936
20BelgiumBELWestern Europe0.931
21ChileCHLSouth America0.915
22AustriaAUTWestern Europe0.914
23LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe0.913
24BarbadosBRBCaribbean0.912
25BotswanaBWASouthern Africa0.911

02In 1990

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Australia0.990
  2. 2Denmark0.988
  3. 3Switzerland0.987
  4. 4Norway0.984
  5. 5New Zealand0.974

Lowest

  1. 166North Korea0.004
  2. 165Cambodia0.020
  3. 164Sudan0.021
  4. 163Eritrea0.032
  5. 162Turkmenistan0.036

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.571. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

03Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from V-Dem Institute’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1990.

  • 149 distinct values among 166

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 3 countries share 0.380. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The position is ours

    V-Dem Institute publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 166 countries has every column.

04The files

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The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg (1990). Judicial Constraints on the Executive Index, 1990 [data set], describing 1990. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/judicial-constraints/1990

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