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Press freedom

حرية الصحافة

Position on journalism, broadcast media, and digital information access. Distinct from broader civil liberties: a regime can selectively restrict press while allowing other forms of speech (or vice versa). Captures both legal frameworks (defamation law, licensing, internet shutdowns) and political enforcement.

Scoring rubric

How positions are calibrated on this axis. The conventions guide the scorer; anchored examples show how known MENA actors land at -10, -5, 0, +5, +10.

Score the explicit press-freedom position: press-licensing posture, defamation framework, treatment of independent journalists, treatment of foreign correspondents, position on internet shutdowns or social-media restrictions.

  • -10
    No legal independent press; journalist detention routine.
  • -5
    Press exists but operates under heavy red lines; selective prosecution.
  • +0
    Mixed posture; partial freedoms; selective harassment.
  • +5
    Broadly free press; some legal constraints but no detention pattern.
  • +10
    Fully free press; constitutional protection plus enforcement.
Parties scored
21
Mean
-2.45
Median
-4.00
Std dev
5.55
Range
-9.0 → 8.0

Ranking

All parties scored on this axis, sorted from most Free press to most State-controlled press.

State-controlled press ← → Free press

-10-5+0+5+10
  1. 1 The Democrats IL
    +8.0
  2. 2 Hadash IL
    +8.0
  3. 3 Israeli Labor Party IL
    +7.0
  4. 4 New Hope IL
    +4.0
  5. 5 Lebanese Forces LB
    +4.0
  6. 6 Ennahda TN
    +3.0
  7. 7 Justice and Development Party MA
    -2.0
  8. 8 Shas IL
    -3.0
  9. 9 Likud IL
    -3.0
  10. 10 United Torah Judaism IL
    -3.5
  11. 11 Freedom and Justice Party EG
    -4.0
  12. 12 Religious Zionism Party IL
    -5.0
  13. 13 Noam IL
    -6.0
  14. 14 Fatah PS
    -6.0
  15. 15 Otzma Yehudit IL
    -6.0
  16. 16 Nour Party EG
    -6.5
  17. 17 Hayat Tahrir al-Sham SY
    -7.0
  18. 18 Hamas PS
    -8.0
  19. 19 Hezbollah LB
    -8.0
  20. 20 Islamic Salvation Front DZ
    -8.5
  21. 21 Ansar Allah (Houthis) YE
    -9.0

Score distribution

Histogram of scores across all 21 parties. Mean -2.45, median -4.00, σ 5.55. Multi-modal distributions point to genuine cleavages on this axis; unimodal narrow ones to consensus.

-9: 1 party -8: 3 parties 3 -7: 1 party -6: 4 parties 4 -5: 1 party -4: 1 party -3: 3 parties 3 -2: 1 party +3: 1 party +4: 2 parties 2 +7: 1 party +8: 2 parties 2 −10 0 +10

State-controlled press Free press

By country

Mean score per country.

  • Tunisia 1 party
    +3.00
  • Israel 10 parties
    +0.05
  • Morocco 1 party
    -2.00
  • Lebanon 2 parties
    -2.00
  • Egypt 2 parties
    -5.25
  • Palestine 2 parties
    -7.00
  • Syria 1 party
    -7.00
  • Algeria 1 party
    -8.50
  • Yemen 1 party
    -9.00

Cross-axis correlations

How parties' scores on this axis covary with their scores on each other axis. Pearson r runs from −1 (perfect inverse) to +1 (perfect identity); 0 means independent. Computed across all parties scored on both axes (n shown per row). Strong correlations expose which axes are really measuring the same cleavage in the data; near-zero values are the ones with the most additional explanatory power.

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