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spir-11362	Wijermars, Mariëlle; Lokot, Tetyana	THE POLITICS OF INTERNET FREEDOM RANKINGS: A CALL FOR A COMPARATIVE FRAMEWORK FOR ASSESSING INTERNET FREEDOM	2020.0	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1342	73	33	The conceptualization and operationalization of the concept of internet freedom that underlies internet freedom rankings is of particular importance since the promotion of internet freedom is an integral part of foreign policy of, e.g., the US and EU (e.g. the EU Action Plan for Human Rights and Democracy 2020-2024), and rankings serve as an important source of information and justification for prioritizing funding and efforts (Maréchal, 2015). In particular, it aims to initiate a debate ultimately leading to the development of a groundbreaking comparative framework for assessing internet policy, departing from the assumption that current frameworks for assessing and measuring internet freedom are predicated too strictly on the dichotomy of democracy/non-democracy.	cache/spir-11362.pdf	txt/spir-11362.txt