22 Chasing the Wind: Assessing Philippine Democracy Table 1. A Framework for the Analysis of Data: Conceptualization, Measurement and Aggregation (From Munck and Verkuilen, 2002:18) There is reason to be hopeful about better datasets and more challenging measures of democracy emerging in the near future. Obvious improvements in the methodological skills of social scientists studying democracy are already discernible in the quality of statistical processing as well as modeling work in academic publications since 2000 (Clague, et al. 2001; Wejnert 2005; Bayer and Bernhard 2010; Knutsen 2010). Beyond simple associations suggested by rudimentary cross tabulations and with more sophisticated correlation analysis, there is causal modeling being done by those who would explore the dynamics of democratization and the nature of democracies deeper. (See Boix 2001 for an exciting study on the linkages and interactions between democracy and inequality; again also see Boix 2003—his volume on "Democracy and