Turkiye Report:
According to the World Justice Project’s Rule of Law Index 2024, Türkiye ranks 117th globally out of 142 countries, scoring 0.42 overall. Despite showing stability in some areas, Türkiye faces challenges in key areas like government constraints, fundamental rights, and civil justice, where it ranks among the lowest in its region and income group. The low ranking in fundamental rights highlights significant human rights violations, including restrictions on freedom of expression, association, and religion. This underscores the ongoing need for reforms to strengthen the rule of law and protect human rights.
The World Justice Project (WJP) Rule of Law Index® 2024
The World Justice Project (WJP) Rule of Law Index® 2024 report was prepared by the World Justice Project. The Index’s conceptual framework and methodology were developed by Juan Carlos Botero, Mark David Agrast, and Alejandro Ponce. Data collection and analysis for the 2024 report was performed by Allison Bostrom, Erin Campbell, James Davis, Giacomo D’Urbano, Alicia Evangelides, Joshua Fuller, Lauren Littlejohn, Alejandro Ponce, Natalia Rodríguez Cajamarca, and Katrina Wanner, with the assistance of Lloyd Cleary, Adrian Feinberg, James Marculitis, Andrea Marín Núñez de Arce, Charlotte Mast, Zayna Tubeishat, and Holly West.
Features of the WJP Rule of Law Index
The World Justice Project (WJP) developed the WJP Rule of Law Index to serve as a quantitative tool that measures the rule of law in practice. The Index’s methodology and comprehensive definition of the rule of law are the products of intensive consultation and vetting with academics, practitioners, and community leaders from more than 100 countries and jurisdictions and 17 professional disciplines.
The scores and rankings of the eight factors and 44 subfactors of the Index draw from two sources of data collected by the WJP:
1. A General Population Poll (GPP) conducted by leading local polling companies, using a representative sample of 1,0001 respondents in each country and jurisdiction.
2. Qualified Respondents’ Questionnaires (QRQs) consisting of closed-ended questions completed by in-country legal practitioners, experts, and academics with expertise in civil and commercial law; constitutional law, civil liberties, and criminal law; labor law; and public health.
Taken together, these two data sources provide current, original information reflecting the experiences and perceptions of the general public and in-country legal practitioners and experts in 142 countries and jurisdictions worldwide.
Rule of Law in Practice
The Index measures adherence to the rule of law by looking at policy outcomes, such as whether people have access to courts or whether crime is effectively controlled. This stands in contrast to efforts that focus on the written legal code, or the institutional means by which a society may seek to achieve these policy outcomes.
Comprehensive and Multi-Dimensional
While other indices cover particular aspects of the rule of law, such as absence of corruption or human rights, they do not yield a full picture of the state of the rule of law. The WJP Rule of Law Index is the only global instrument that looks at the rule of law comprehensively.
Perspective of Ordinary People
The WJP Rule of Law Index puts people at its core. It looks at a country’s adherence to the rule of law from the perspective of ordinary individuals and their experiences with the rule of law in their societies. The Index examines practical, everyday situations, such as whether people can access public services and whether a dispute among neighbors can be resolved peacefully and cost-effectively by an independent adjudicator.
New Data Anchored in Actual Experiences
The Index is the only comprehensive set of indicators on the rule of law that is based on primary data. Index scores are built from the assessments of residents (generally 1,000 respondents per country or jurisdiction) and local legal practitioners and experts, which ensure that the findings reflect the conditions experienced by actual people, including residents from marginalized sectors of society.
Culturally Competent
The Index has been designed to be applied in countries and jurisdictions with vastly different social, cultural, economic, and political systems. No society has ever attained—let alone sustained—a perfect realization of the rule of law. Every country faces the perpetual challenge of building and renewing the structures, institutions, and norms that can support and sustain a rule of law culture.
Country-Specific Data and Online Tools
In addition to this written report, an interactive online platform for country-specific WJP Rule of Law Index data is available at: worldjusticeproject.org. The interactive data site invites viewers to browse each of the 142 country and jurisdiction profiles and explore overall and factor scores.
Comments