Tanja Porčnik

Resident Scholar (2019-20), The Fraser Institute

Tanja Porčnik was a Resident Scholar at the Fraser Institute between March 2019 and March 2020. Her work focused on human freedom studies, with a particular attention to measuring human rights protection with multidimensional indicator frameworks.

Before joining the Fraser Institute, Porčnik was an Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute in Washington, DC, President of the Visio Institute in Slovenia, a Senior Fellow at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in Teaching Fellow at the Georgetown University’s American Institute on Political and Economic Systems in Prague, Czech Republic.

Her articles on human rights, law, international relations, and economic policy appear regularly in professional journals and printed media, and she is a frequent commentator on television and radio.

Porčnik is a Ph.D. candidate in Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She holds a Master’s Degree in Political Science from University of Ljubljana and a Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Economics from University of Maribor.

Recent Research by Tanja Porčnik

— Dec 18, 2019
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The Human Freedom Index 2019

The Human Freedom Index, 2019 finds that New Zealand is again the freest country in the world, followed by Switzerland and Hong Kong. Canada ranks 4th globally, and the United States ranks 15th in this year’s report. The index ranks 162 countries and jurisdictions based on 76 indicators of personal, civil and economic freedoms and is a joint project with the Cato Institute in the U.S. and Germany’s Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom.

— Dec 10, 2018
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The Human Freedom Index 2018

The Human Freedom Index, 2018 finds that New Zealand is the freest country in the world, followed by Switzerland and Hong Kong. Canada ranks 5th globally, and the United States ranks 17th in this year’s report. The index ranks 162 countries and jurisdictions based on 79 indicators of personal, civil and economic freedoms and is a joint project with the Cato Institute in the U.S. and Germany’s Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom.

— Jan 25, 2018
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The Human Freedom Index 2017

The Human Freedom Index, 2017 finds Canada is no longer one of the 10 freest countries in the world, having dropped from fourth to 11th, while the United States climbed up seven spots to 17th. The index ranks 159 countries and jurisdictions based on 79 indicators of personal, civil and economic freedoms and is a joint project with the Cato Institute in the U.S. and Germany’s Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom.